Performance of blood enterovirus and parechovirus polymerase chain reaction testing in young febrile infants: a prospective multicentre observational study.

Objectives: To analyse the performance of blood enterovirus and parechovirus PCR testing (ev-PCR) for invasive bacterial infection (IBI) (isolation of a single bacterial pathogen in a blood or cerebrospinal fluid culture) when evaluating well-appearing infants ≤90 days of age with fever without a source (FWS).

Methods: We describe the well-appearing infants ≤90 days of age with FWS and normal urine dipstick. We performed a prospective, observational multicentre study at five paediatric emergency departments between October 2020 and September 2023.

Critical Stenosis Because of Vocal Cord Synechiae in a Child.

Stridor is a clinical sign of an underlying disease and a common reason for pediatric emergency department (PED) consultation. Patients presenting with stridor must be evaluated to determine the origin of this abnormality. We present the case of a 7-year-old female patient who presented to our Pediatric Emergency Department with a history of recurrent episodes of stridor with increasing frequency over the previous 4 years, for this reason she was previously admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit.

Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in the Pediatric Emergency Department and Predictors of Poor Outcome.

Background: Staphylococcus aureus has become the leading cause of bacteremia among previously healthy children older than 5 years.

Methods: We aimed to describe the infants presenting to pediatric emergency departments and diagnosed with S. aureus bacteremia (SAB) and identify predictors (clinical and laboratory variables) of poor outcome (complications, sequelae or death).

[Hospital care of patients with chronic pathology].

Unlabelled: Advances in medical care have increased the survival of children with complex chronic pathology (CCP).

Objective: to analyze the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of a cohort of children with CCP.

Patients And Method: retrospective descriptive study performed in a tertiary hospital bet ween June 2017 and June 2020, which included patients with CCP criteria.