Objective: To report the case of an infant who required high-dose vancomycin therapy after an unsuccessful gastroschisis repair surgery.
Case Summary: An infant born at 35 weeks and 5 days of gestation underwent a gastroschisis repair on day of life 47. The repair was unsuccessful causing fluid backup and accumulation into the stomach.
We report a retrospective case series of 19 infants exposed to both opioids and gabapentin prenatally. We describe a unique behavioral phenotype in 15 of these infants and report a treatment strategy.
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Previous research suggests that polypharmacy is a significant challenge for health care systems. However, polypharmacy has been defined in at least 24 distinct ways, which has understandably caused confusion among researchers, educators, and students in health care. Previous definitions of polypharmacy capture what could be both inappropriate therapy, i.
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