Publications by authors named "Andreanne Benidir"
Objectives: Evidence exists that analgesics are underutilized, delayed, and insufficiently dosed for emergency department (ED) patients with acute abdominal pain. For physicians practicing in a Canadian paediatric ED setting, we (1) explored theoretical practice variation in the provision of analgesia to children with acute abdominal pain; (2) identified reasons for withholding analgesia; and (3) evaluated the relationship between providing analgesia and surgical consultation.
Methods: Physician members of Paediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) were prospectively surveyed and presented with three scenarios of undifferentiated acute abdominal pain to assess management.
Case 1: A 16-year-old female with left lower-quadrant abdominal pain.
Paediatr Child Health
January 2014
Objective: The aim of this study was to assess current attitudes and approaches to the febrile neonate in terms of diagnostic investigations and empiric treatment of suspected herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection.
Methods: Between March 2010 and November 2010, a survey describing a hypothetical case of a febrile neonate presenting to the ED without clear signs of an HSV infection was sent to tertiary care pediatric emergency physicians across Canada. Participants were asked multiple choice and open-ended questions to obtain information about their choice of investigations, empiric treatment, and impression of the likelihood of HSV in the case.
Aims: To assess the influence of height age and short stature on BMI z-scores in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in view of the pandemic increase of childhood obesity.
Materials: Pediatric nephrology patients older than 2 years of age from 2 tertiary centers in Ontario and age- and gender matched controls from a local reference population.
Methods: We estimated height, weight and body mass index (BMI) z-scores of 705 nephrology patients (319 female) and 4,196 controls aged 2.