Publications by authors named "Laurence Alix-Seguin"
Objective: Pediatric interfacility transports are frequent. Despite the absence of a formal pediatric transport curriculum in eastern Canada, directly managing patients during transport and medical direction of the referring center and transport team are part of the pediatric critical care medicine (PCCM) and pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) program requirements. The authors developed a pediatric interfacility transport curriculum and measured its impact on fellows' confidence and performance.
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- * A double-blind clinical trial involved 72 participants, who were given either 2 mL of sucrose or a placebo two minutes before the NPA; pain levels were measured using the FLACC Pain Scale.
- * Results showed no significant difference in pain reduction between the sucrose and placebo groups, indicating that the sweet solution did not effectively alleviate pain in the infants during the procedure.
Background: The current COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 54,800,000 SARS-CoV-2 infections worldwide with a mortality rate of around 2.5%. As observed in other airborne viral infections such as influenza and SARS-CoV-1, healthcare workers are at high risk for infection when performing aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMP).
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