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.