Mental Health of Caregivers of Children with Medical Complexity During COVID-19.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between mental health and financial burden among caregivers of children with medical complexity (CMC) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey on the mental health and financial burden of caregivers of CMC from April 2020 to April 2021. The study sample included 70 caregivers.

Assessment of a cohort of primarily pediatric patients with a presumptive diagnosis of type 1 von Willebrand disease with a novel high shear rate, non-citrated blood flow device.

Background: A precise approach to the diagnosis of von Willebrand disease (vWD) remains elusive. One important reason is that vWD is a blood flow-related disorder: a vW Factor-platelet GPIb binding defect exists in this condition under the high shear-rate (> 1000 sec-1 in whole blood; > 3000 sec-1 in PRP) conditions of physiologic blood flow which exist in the arterioles of mucous membranes, from which most bleeding in vWD occurs.

Methods: We therefore studied 28 patients (mean 18.

Cerebral fractional anisotropy score in trauma patients: a new indicator of white matter injury after trauma.

Objective: Previous studies evaluating quantitative cerebral white matter diffusion anisotropy indexes have shown alteration in patients after trauma. To date, no clinically applicable scale exists by which to gauge and test the relevance of these findings. We propose the cerebral fractional anisotropy score in trauma (C-FAST) as an index of white matter injury, and we correlate C-FAST with several predictor and outcome variables.