Effectiveness of a neonatal intensive care unit-specific antimicrobial stewardship program: A ten-year review.

Objective: To evaluate the change in consumption of specific antibiotics in a neonatal intensive care unit after the implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP).

Design: Retrospective cohort study between January 1, 2010, and December 31,2019.

Setting: The neonatal intensive care unit at British Columbia Women's Hospital (Vancouver Canada), a tertiary-care center.

Contribution of Real-Time Xpert MTB/RIF Testing to Establishing Early Diagnosis of Pediatric Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in a Nonendemic Setting: A Case Series.

Microbiologic confirmation of pediatric extrapulmonary tuberculosis remains challenging, leading to diagnostic delays. In our retrospective case series, real-time molecular testing (Xpert MTB/RIF) on respiratory and extrapulmonary specimens resulted in a more rapid diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in a nonendemic, high resource setting.

An alternate technique to pacing in complex congenital heart disease: assessment of the left thoracotomy approach.

Background: Pacing in children with congenital heart disease often requires alternate approaches to standard transvenous pacing. The surgical approach used to implant the pacemaker leads has been shown to impact lead survival. There is a paucity of pediatric literature describing the experience using a left thoracotomy approach.