A retrospective analysis of the duration of mechanical ventilation in Scandinavian paediatric heart centres.

Aim: Early extubation after cardiac surgery shortens paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) length of stay (LOS) and decreases complications from mechanical ventilation (MV). We explored the duration of MV in Scandinavian paediatric heart centres.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the MV duration and PICU LOS of 696 children operated for atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect (VSD), tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) or total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) in four Scandinavian centres in 2015-2016.

A comparison of pediatric basic life support self-led and instructor-led training among nurses.

Objective: Pediatric cardiac arrest carries a poor prognosis. Basic life support improves survival. Studies on pediatric basic life support (PBLS) training are sparse.

Homozygosity for a mutation in the CYP11B2 gene in an infant with congenital corticosterone methyl oxidase deficiency type II.

Unlabelled: Isolated aldosterone synthase deficiency can be the source of life-threatening salt wasting and failure to thrive in infancy. We studied an infant with failure to thrive and persistent hyponatremia despite oral sodium supplementation. Initial analyses revealed highly elevated plasma renin but normal values of plasma aldosterone.

Common adder bite to the tongue causing life threatening toxicity from airway compromise.

We illustrate the acute phase and development of symptoms in a 24-year-old man following a European Common Viper bite to the tongue.