Enhancing Medical Students' Interprofessional Teamwork Through Simulated Room of Errors Experience.

Background: Fostering medical students' appreciation for team members particularly those from other disciplines with varying levels of experience promotes a promising beginning to a health care career.

Methods: During surgical clerkship orientation, third-year medical students completed 30-item TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire preintervention and postintervention, spent 7 min identifying errors in a simulated operating room, followed by recorded physician-led 30-min discussions.

Results: Postintervention (67) compared with preintervention (141) mean TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire domain scores were statistically significantly higher for team structure (4.

Patients with single ventricle anatomy may respond better to octreotide therapy for chylothorax after congenital heart surgery.

Background And Aims: Chylothorax (CTX) occurs in 3% to 6% of children after surgery for congenital heart disease with significant morbidity and mortality. Octreotide has been proposed as therapy, but there are no predictors of response. The objective of this study was to identify possible predictors of response to octreotide.

Hepatotoxicity after continuous amiodarone infusion in a postoperative cardiac infant.

A former 34-week-old female infant with Down syndrome underwent surgical correction of a congenital heart defect at 5 months of age. Her postoperative course was complicated by severe pulmonary hypertension and junctional ectopic tachycardia. Following treatment with amiodarone infusion, she developed laboratory indices of acute liver injury.

Failure of nasogastric omeprazole suspension in pediatric intensive care patients.

Objectives: To determine the efficacy of nasogastric administration of omeprazole suspension in raising the gastric pH >4 in critically ill pediatric patients and to determine the most appropriate dosing regimen for this indication.

Design: Open-label pharmacodynamic study.

Setting: Twenty-six bed tertiary-care pediatric intensive care unit.