Variables associated with pediatric emergency department visits for uncontrolled pain in postoperative adenotonsillectomy patients.

Objective: Returns to the emergency department (ED) for pain or dehydration after adenotonsillectomy (T&A) are frequent. Attempts to associate the specific pain regimens with these visits have been unrevealing, suggesting a need to assess for other potential factors associated with readmission.

Methods: A review of a 2:1 cohort matched by age, gender and payer status compared post-T&A patients who did not return ED for pain or dehydration within 21 days to those who returned.

Pediatric emergency department visits for uncontrolled pain in postoperative adenotonsillectomy patients.

Objective: Identify demographic variables related to emergency department (ED) returns, and analgesic administration in the ED for postoperative pain after adenotonsillectomy (T&A).

Study Design: Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) database analysis.

Methods: Forty-seven children's hospitals included in the PHIS database were queried for all ED visits within 30 days of surgery with a diagnosis of acute postoperative pain (n = 2459) from 2014 to 2015.

Measuring the impact of surgical intervention on pediatric pectus excavatum using white light scanning.

Background: Objective preoperative assessment of pectus excavatum (PE) deformity in patients is limited to preoperative measurement of severity using computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Postoperative assessment is currently subjective as postoperative CT scans are not recommended in light of radiation exposure and high cost to families. White Light Scanning (WLS) is a novel 3D imaging modality that offers an alternative that is a quick, nonionizing, inexpensive, and safe strategy for measurement both pre- and postsurgery.

Procedural burden experienced by children with cancer during their terminal hospital admission.

Background: Children with chronic conditions, including cancer, have been shown to have high-intensity end-of-life care. We assessed the frequency and timing of invasive procedures that children with cancer undergo during their terminal hospital admission (THA).

Methods: The Pediatric Health Information System database was queried from 2011 to 2015 for patients ages 1-18 years with a "malignancy" flag who died in the hospital.