Dear instructors,You may use the content of this module to help your trainees learn about basics and knobology of PEM POCUS!We hope you enjoy it!Jade Seguin, MCH PEM POCUS team
This eBook is a medical education resource intended to supplement the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of medical students and pediatric residents in furthering their own knowledge about the general inpatient management of pediatric diabetes mellitus. This book may be of further use to any physician, advanced practitioners, or nurses who may also encounter pediatric patients with diabetes mellitus in the inpatient hospital setting. This book is specific to protocols and preferences for pediatric diabetes management at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital. However, it also contains overarching concepts that transcend location wherever pediatric diabetes may be managed. At the time of publication, this book includes 4 Units, each consisting of 4-7 Chapters. Unit 1 introduces readers to an overview of diabetes mellitus, including its definition, diagnostic criteria, laboratory evaluation, clinical diagnosis, and key differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Unit 2 dives into understanding different types of insulins and their uses. Unit 3 walks readers through the creation of initial insulin regimens for pediatric patients with new-onset diabetes. Lastly, Unit 4 dives into the details of pediatric diabetes management at Stead Family Children’s Hospitals according to the protocols and capabilities of the institution and preferences of the pediatric endocrinology division.
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"No pregnant woman wants to hear that her developing baby has a life-threatening genetic disease. Historically, women carrying babies with alpha thalassemia major, a type of hereditary anemia, faced the difficult choice between terminating a pregnancy or continuing on despite nearly assured fetal death. Now, researchers at UCSF have reported another option: in utero blood transfusion, or IUT. In this procedure, healthy red blood cells are infused into the fetus, which can reverse the effects of ATM and increase the chance of survival. Fetal hemoglobin – a protein with two alpha and two gamma subunits – is the main oxygen supplier in utero. Patients with ATM lack alpha subunits. As a result, their hemoglobin holds oxygen so tightly that it cannot be released into developing tissues. While a lack of oxygen is harmful at any age, the effects in utero are particularly severe – depriving a developing brain of oxygen, for example, can cause devastating neurologic injury..."
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The following open educational resource (OER) is intended for use by private pediatric practices that wish to train and educate its team members about proper vaccine management. Versions of this material have been uniquely adapted and rewritten for platforms such as the OER Commons and Amazon Kindle. This OER is not a substitute for official Vaccines for Children (VFC) training, vaccine manufacturer training, or training provided to pediatricians by state and county health departments (in the United States). The ParkHealth Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization in the United States that publishes OERs to accomplish its mission to teach widely. For more information, see www.park.health.
This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:
"Over the past several decades, a concerning health trend has emerged among children: ACL injuries are on the rise. That’s got clinicians re-thinking the best approach to recovery. Non-operative measures such as physical therapy, bracing, and activity modification used to be the norm. Now, given the concerning statistics, many believe surgical reconstruction could actually be the more conservative approach long term. New findings reported in the July issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine appear to support that view. They suggest that ACL reconstruction through an iliotibial band technique can restore kinetic and kinematic function in the growing knee—and maintain it well into adulthood. The authors of the study tested the knees of 38 individuals who underwent iliotibial band ACL reconstruction as skeletally immature children. Because individuals enrolled in the study were of different ages, they represented a spectrum of post-surgery follow-up times, ranging from 1 to 20 years..."
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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:
"Molluscum contagiosum is a common skin infection caused by a poxvirus that primarily affects children. Currently there is no FDA-approved treatment for molluscum. Phase 3 clinical trials suggest that VP-102, a combination drug-device product, could be safe and effective for use in molluscum participants aged 2 or older. VP-102 is a shelf-stable, proprietary drug-device combination product containing a topical solution of the active ingredient cantharidin (a vesicant), along with acetone, gentian violet (a surgical dye), and denatonium benzoate (a bittering agent). Once the solution is applied to molluscum lesions, it dries to form a thin flexible film. VP-102 should be removed by washing with soap and water approximately 24 hours after treatment. Two randomized, double-blind, vehicle-controlled phase 3 trials named CAMP -1 and CAMP-2 were conducted to evaluate VP-102 in treating molluscum in participants 2 years or older..."
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Private Practice Basics is a training program that all team members must regularly undergo to maintain functional literacy. Among others, functional literacy measures your ability to manage information: obtaining information and synthesizing information (Institute of Medicine, 2004). PediaHealth Basics is administered via Google Classroom. To participate, join the Class.
This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:
"Liver transplantation can save the lives of children with devastating diseases but challenges remain, and varying outcomes can affect patients’ lives Standardization and transparency are difficult to achieve, and new developments are implemented slowly Optimizing treatment strategies for pediatric transplant goes beyond traditional research - it requires collaboration between clinicians and families and the utilization of improvement strategies This need is addressed by the Starzl Network for Excellence in Pediatric Transplantation, or SNEPT We are a learning health network aligning clinical care specialists, technology experts, patients, families, and patient advocates The inaugural SNEPT meeting in 2018 brought together key stakeholders in the pediatric liver transplant community to identify key challenges and set goals for improving pediatric transplantation outcomes SNEPT leadership consists of transplant professionals and parent leaders from the SNEPT Patient & Family Voice group Lear.."
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in 2010, author Chris Adrian was named to The New Yorker's "20 under 40" list of fiction writers worth watching. He is currently a Fellow in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the University of California San Francisco. He is also the author of several novels and a collection of short stories. (58 minutes)
This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:
"Growing up with siblings has many impacts on a child’s development and health, and previous studies suggest that this includes influencing their beneficial microbial communities. But a recent study examined these impacts directly, assessing the airway and gut microbiotas of nearly 700 children. In the COPSAC2010 cohort, the researchers followed the children from one week to six years of age. and found that the presence of siblings was among the most important factors influencing the composition of both microbial communities. This effect was most apparent in the first year of life, and while the number of older siblings had an impact, the age gap to the closest older sibling was a much stronger influence. It has previously been suggested that the microbial impact of siblings may reduce the incidence of ‘atopic diseases’ like asthma, allergy, and eczema, and in this study, having a sibling-influenced gut microbiota at one year old corresponded to reduced risk of asthma at six years old..."
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