Updated guidelines are available that let people know just what to do if an infant, child or adult is choking — and it’s ...

Abdominal skin and axillary temperatures were monitored continuously over a 24-hour period in 12 healthy term gestation infants, 5 to 9 weeks' postnatal age. Skin probes were adhered with insulated ...

Dr. Jeffrey M. Sumner (Pediatrics): An 8-week-old male infant was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of this hospital because of inconsolable crying, lethargy, weakness, and ...

Dr. Akash Gupta (Medicine and Pediatrics): A 6-month-old boy was seen in the emergency department of this hospital because of gastrointestinal bleeding and abdominal pain. The patient had been in his ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA today approved the antibiotic meropenem for the treatment of abdominal infections in neonates and ...

The aim of this study is to characterize baseline regional oxygen saturations (rSO 2) in stable preterm infants during the first weeks of life. In the neonatal population, assessments of vital organ ...

Physical examination should be used to first identify unstable patients who need immediate attention. 1 Vital signs and body weight should be measured. Dehydration is common because of diarrhea, which ...

In adults with severe sepsis, the disturbances of the sublingual microcirculation can be quantified with orthogonal polarization spectral imaging. We investigated the cutaneous microcirculation of ...