"My Baby's Sleep": A Quality Improvement Project to Promote Safe and Healthy Sleep Practices.

Introduction Promoting healthy sleep practices from birth has a positive effect on infants and their families. Our goal was to implement measures to promote safe and healthy sleep practices for infants and to evaluate their impact. Methods A quality improvement project was developed in the maternity ward of a level II hospital in Portugal.

Acute Complications of Sickle Cell Disease in Children Under 5 Years at a Level II Hospital.

The aim of this study was to characterize the acute complications that required hospitalization in children under 5 years with Sickle Cell Disease. The population included 70 patients, 64% of African ascendency and 95.7% homozygotic for the HbS.

Influence of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on sleep habits in a pediatric population.

Objective: Assessment of changes in sleep habits at home in children during COVID-19 lockdown.

Methods: Retrospective, transversal study in a pediatric ward of a level II hospital. Questionnaires concerning sleep quality, patterns and its modifications during lockdown were distributed from June to August 2020.

Diagnosis and Treatment of Headache in a Pediatric Emergency Department.

Objectives: The aims of the study were (1) to analyze the etiology and clinical management of headaches in children in the emergency department and (2) to analyze the treatment used in children diagnosed with headaches and with migraines.

Methods: Retrospective study of all the patients who were admitted to the pediatric emergency department of Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca, Lisbon, in 2014, with a chief complaint of headaches or the primary discharge diagnosis was headache/migraine.

Results: Headache related cases represented 3.

Predictors of OSA following adenotonsillectomy in children with trisomy 21.

Objectives: Given that 30%-50% of children with trisomy 21 have persistent obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) after adenotonsillectomy, we evaluated whether demographic, clinical and polysomnographic factors predicted persistent OSA and OSA severity after adenotonsillectomy.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Secondary care hospital.

Drug-Induced Sleep Endoscopy in Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Objective: To describe drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) findings in children with obstructive sleep apnea and to differentiate them between surgically naïve children and children who had adenotonsillectomy performed.

Study Design: Retrospective case series with chart review.

Setting: Secondary care hospital.

Overweight in youth and sleep quality: is there a link?

Objective: Overweight seems to be related to a higher prevalence of sleep disturbances. Decreased sleep duration and altered sleep quality are risk factors for obesity. Our aim was to compare the sleep pattern of overweight children with that of a matched control group and assess the relationship between sleep quality and obesity.

The effect of NaCl 0.9% and NaCl 0.45% on sodium, chloride, and acid-base balance in a PICU population.

Objectives: To study the effect of two intravenous maintenance fluids on plasma sodium (Na), and acid-base balance in pediatric intensive care patients during the first 24h of hospitalization.

Methods: A prospective randomized controlled study was performed, which allocated 233 patients to groups: (A) NaCl 0.9% or (B) NaCl 0.

Sleep pathology characterization in sickle cell disease: case-control study.

Background: Children and adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD) have a higher incidence of sleep pathology and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). The nocturnal hypoxemia is a risk to vaso-occlusive crisis among other SCD morbidities. Our aim was to compare polysomnography (PSG) results in a sample of children with SCD with a sample of children with suspected OSAS without SCD.