The concordance of ultrasound technique versus X-ray to confirm endotracheal tube position in neonates.

Objective: Given the distressingly high incidence of ETT malposition in the neonatal population, patients are exposed to ionizing radiation to confirm endotracheal tube (ETT) position. Our objective is to determine if ultrasound technique is concordant with X-ray in determining whether an ETT is deeply positioned or not.

Study Design: Prospective observational clinical trial.

Children's anxious reactions to an invasive medical procedure: The role of medical and non-medical fears.

This study investigated the relationship of medical and non-medical fears to children's anxiety, pain, and distress during an invasive medical procedure, the voiding cystourethrogram. Parents of 34 children completed the Fear Survey Schedule-II prior to their child's procedure. Child distress behaviors during the procedure were audiotaped and coded using the Child-Adult Medical Procedure Interaction Scale-Revised.

Is parental anxiety and coping associated with girls' distress during a VCUG? Preliminary findings.

Purpose: We investigated the relationship between parental anxiety/coping strategies and girls' distress during VCUGs.

Methods: Parents of 32 girls (age 4-10, mean 5.8 years) completed a trait anxiety measure and a measure of parental reactions to children's distress.

The association of constipation with childhood urinary tract infections.

Objective: Previous studies have suggested a correlation between constipation and urinary tract infections (UTIs) in children. However, historical information about constipation may be unreliable and the relationship between a history of constipation and radiographic findings of fecal load is unclear.

Patients And Methods: A total of 133 children undergoing an abdominal X-ray were evaluated.

Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma in a child with congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation.

An 11-year-old girl was evaluated for chest pain, and chest radiographic findings of multiple nodules throughout both lungs. She underwent resection of several of the lesions from her left lung, which were found at pathologic examination to be bronchioloalveolar carcinoma. Her previous medical history included incomplete resection of a type I congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation in the neonatal period.