Epidemiology and outcomes of children with accidental hypothermia: A propensity-matched study.

Background: The purpose of this study was to explore the epidemiology and outcomes of hospitalized children with a diagnosis of accidental hypothermia.

Methods: The 2012 Kids' Inpatient Database, detailing discharge diagnoses in children admitted to US hospitals, was analyzed using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes to filter out relevant patients. Children ages 1 month to 17 years were included in the analysis.

Serial cardiac troponin concentrations as marker of cardiac toxicity in children with status asthmaticus treated with intravenous terbutaline.

Objectives: The study's objectives were to evaluate serial troponin concentrations as a marker of cardiac toxicity in children receiving intravenous terbutaline for status asthmaticus and to study if troponin concentrations are affected by severity of asthma and risk factors for severe asthma.

Methods: This was a prospective observational study in 20 consecutive patients who were admitted to a tertiary care pediatric intensive care unit for status asthmaticus and received intravenous terbutaline. Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) concentrations were measured half an hour before the bolus of intravenous terbutaline, 4 hours after terbutaline, and then every 24 hours until discontinuation of the continuous terbutaline infusion.

Therapeutic hypercapnia enhances the inflammatory response to endotoxin in the lung of spontaneously breathing rats.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that therapeutic hypercapnia enhances the proinflammatory responses to endotoxemia in the lung and spleen of rats.

Design: Prospective randomized study.

Settings: Hospital research institute.