Intranasal dexmedetomidine for sedation in ABR testing in children: No pain, big gain!

Objectives: Obtaining perfect immobility or sleep in children undergoing ABR auditory brainstem response) testing can be challenging. We examined the effectiveness and safety of intranasal dexmedetomidine for sedation of children undergoing ABR testing.

Material And Methods: We included prospectively all patients aged from 1 to 15 years for whom sedation for ABR testing was required, between July 2018 and November 2021.

A follow-up of pain reported by children undergoing outpatient surgery using a smartphone application: AlgoDARPEF multicenter descriptive prospective study.

In pediatric patients, pain remains the most common complaint after surgery. This French multicenter epidemiological study (AlgoDARPEF) aimed to evaluate the use of a smartphone application (App) to assess the duration and severity of pain experienced by children undergoing outpatient surgery. Children younger than 18 years scheduled for an elective outpatient procedure in one of the participating centers were eligible.

Evaluation of compliance with early postbirth follow-up and unnecessary visits to the paediatric emergency department: a prospective observational study at the Lenval Children's Hospital in Nice.

Objective: To evaluate compliance with the French National Authority for Health's (Haute Autorité de Santé, HAS) postbirth follow-up recommendations for newborns attending our paediatric emergency department (PED) and identify risk factors associated with non-compliance and unnecessary emergency department utilisation.

Design: Prospective, single centre.

Setting: Fourth biggest PED in France in terms of attendance (CHU-Lenval).

Quick-Wee versus bladder stimulation to collect midstream urine from precontinent infants under 1 year of age: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (ES.Stimquick.U).

Introduction: Urinary tract infections occur in around 1%-4% of boys and 3%-8% of girls under 2 years old. Diagnosis is difficult because of non-specific symptoms and the risk of urine analysis contamination depending on the sampling method used for precontinent infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommend transurethral catheterisation and suprapubic aspiration because of a low contamination rate but these techniques are invasive.

Health-related quality of life of food-allergic children compared with healthy controls and other diseases.

Background: Food allergy is a potentially life-threatening disease, affecting up to 10% of the pediatric population.

Objective: The aim of our study was to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQL) of food-allergic patients compared with the general population and patients with other chronic diseases with dietary or allergic burden, in a cross-sectional study.

Methods: We recruited patients aged 8-17 years diagnosed with food allergy and matched healthy controls recruited in schools.