Variability in the management and imaging use in paediatric minor head trauma in European emergency departments. A Research in European Pediatric Emergency Medicine study.

Objective: The objective of the study was to assess the variability in the management of paediatric MHT in European emergency departments (EDs).

Methods: This was a multicentre retrospective study of children ≤18 years old with minor head trauma (MHT) (Glasgow Coma Scale ≥14) who presented to 15 European EDs between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 31. Data on clinical characteristics, imaging tests, and disposition of included patients were collected at each hospital over a 3-year period.

Arsenic levels in immigrant children from countries at risk of consuming arsenic polluted water compared to children from Barcelona.

Arsenic is a highly toxic element that pollutes groundwater, being a major environmental problem worldwide, especially in the Bengal Basin. About 40% of patients in our outpatient clinics come from those countries, and there is no published data about their arsenic exposure. This study compares arsenic exposure between immigrant and native children.

[False low oximetry reading caused by patent blue vital dye during breast surgery].

Patent blue vital (patent blue V; Laboratoire Guerbet, France) is used to identify the sentinel node during surgery for invasive breast cancer. Detecting the sentinel node that first drains the primary tumor reduces the need for total breast and wide axillary node removal, with the problems that such radical surgery involves. Like other dyes, patent blue V can interfere with accurate pulse oximeter reading, leading to underestimation of real values.