Consensus outcomes between health professionals and parents for oral corticosteroids in treating preschool wheeze: a multi-national survey and nominal group technique study.

Objective: To obtain priority consensus for outcome measures of oral corticosteroid treatment of preschool wheeze that represent stakeholder groups.

Design: (1) A systematic review to identify a set of outcome measures; (2) an international survey for healthcare professionals (HCPs) and a nominal group meeting with parents; (3) a final consensus nominal group meeting with key HCPs (trial investigators and paediatric emergency medicine clinicians) and the same parent group.

Main Outcome Measures: Consensus priority of treatment outcome measures, outcome minimal clinically important differences (MCIDs) and level of concerns about adverse effects.

Ectopic Thymic Tissue Presenting as an Epiglottic Mass Compromising a Neonatal Airway: A Case Report.

An epiglottic mass (EM) is rarely found in neonates and poses life-threatening airway complications. We present the case of an infant urgently transferred from Belize via the World Pediatric Project with a lingual EM. The EM was misdiagnosed twice.

Avascular necrosis of femoral head - Demographic profile, natural history of asymptomatic hips and native hip survivorship in an indian subcontinent cohort.

Background: Avascular Necrosis of the femoral head is still considered an unsolved orthopedic problem despite significant research and advances in treatment.

Purposes: 1.Describe the demographic pattern2.

Exertional Heatstroke Encephalopathy With Chronic Neurological Deficit.

Heat exhaustion progresses to heat stroke and then on to heatstroke encephalopathy, a serious illness. Extreme hyperthermia (over 40.5 °C), central nervous system failure, multiorgan dysfunction, and hypovolemic shock are the hallmarks of the clinical presentation of heatstroke.