Early and consistent safe sleep practices in the neonatal intensive care unit: a sustained regional quality improvement initiative.

Objective: To increase compliance with standardized safe sleep recommendations for patients in a cohort of regional level III/IV neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in accordance with recently revised guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Study Design: A regional quality improvement (QI) initiative led by a multidisciplinary task force standardized safe sleep criteria across participating NICU sites. Universal and unit-specific interventions were implemented via Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles with evaluation of compliance through routine crib audits, run chart completion, and Pareto chart analysis.

FDG PET Data is Associated with Cognitive Performance in Patients from a Memory Clinic.

Background: Various reasons may lead to cognitive symptoms in elderly, including the development of cognitive decline and dementia. Often, mixed pathologies such as neurodegeneration and cerebrovascular disease co-exist in these patients. Diagnostic work-up commonly includes imaging modalities such as FDG PET, MRI, and CT, each delivering specific information.

What and how should we measure in paediatric oncology FDG-PET/CT? Comparison of commonly used SUV metrics for differentiation between paediatric tumours.

Background: In clinical routine, SUV and SUV are most often used to determine the glucose metabolism in tumours by F-FDG PET/CT. Both metrics can be further normalised to SUVs in reference regions resulting in a SUV ratio (SUV). The aim of the study was to directly compare several widely used SUVs/SUV with regard to differentiation between common tumours in paediatric patients; a special focus was put on characteristics of reference region SUVs.