Short-term Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Administration in the Pediatric Emergency Department: Feasibility, Safety, and Outcome.

Objectives: The practice of administration of intravenous (IV) antimicrobial therapy in outpatient settings (OPAT) is a low-cost alternative to in-patient admission and treatment. There is, however, limited evidence supporting OPAT management protocols for children. The primary objective of this study was to describe the use of pediatric emergency-based OPAT, as well as the safety of this practice.

Effect of lumbar puncture educational video on parental knowledge and self-reported intended practice.

Background: Lumbar puncture (LP) remains an essential diagnostic procedure for neurological and infectious diseases. However, it remains a source of anxiety to patients and families. This research aimed to assess the impact of a newly developed educational simplified video about LP, in the parents' native language, that is tailored to their social background and beliefs and to assess whether it can facilitate their consent for the procedure.

Knowledge of non-healthcare individuals towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a cross-sectional study in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia.

Background: Most sudden cardiac arrests occur at home, with low rates of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation being performed. We aimed to assess knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation among individuals in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia, who are not involved in health care.

Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted between January and February 2020 in 4 different areas in Riyadh City: North, South, East, and West.

Out of hospital adult cardiac arrests in a university hospital in Central Saudi Arabia.

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Out-of-hospital adult cardiac arrests in a university hospital in central Saudi Arabia.

Objectives: To report the characteristics of adult out-of-hospital arrest patients and their outcomes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  

Methods: This is a prospective descriptive study of out-of-hospital adult arrests incident transported to King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between July 2012 and September 2013.  

Results: A total of 96 adult patients were enrolled in this study.

What if Fleming had not discovered penicillin?

What would have happened had Alexander Fleming not discovered penicillin in 1928? Perhaps the obvious answer is that, someone else would have discovered penicillin during 1930s and the Oxford group, would still have purified it sometime in the early 1940s. Here, however, in this counterfactual account of the penicillin story, it is argued that without Fleming, penicillin might still be undiscovered and the antibiotic age would never have dawned. As a result, many of the recent developments in medicine, such as organ transplantation, might have been delayed or, at best, made more hazardous.

Effectiveness of granisetron in controlling pediatric gastroenteritis-related vomiting after discharge from the ED.

Objective: The objective of the study is to determine the efficacy of oral granisetron (a long-acting 5-HT3 receptor antagonist) in stopping vomiting subsequent to discharge from emergency department (ED), in 6-month-old to 8-year-old patients with gastroenteritis-related vomiting and dehydration, who had failed an initial trial of oral rehydration (ORT).

Methods: Eligible patients were offered ORT on a slowly advancing schedule. Patients who tolerated the initial ORT were discharged home.

Duration of fever affects the likelihood of a positive bag urinalysis or catheter culture in young children.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that there will be a clinically significant rise in the proportion of positive bag urinalyses and catheter cultures in young children with increasing duration of fever.

Study Design: This was a prospective cohort study of 818 infants and children age 3-36 months presenting to a tertiary care emergency department with documented fever without source. Following the documentation of fever from < 1 to > or = 5 days, bag specimens were collected for urinalysis.