Pediatric Intubations in a Semiurban Helicopter Emergency Medicine Service: A Retrospective Review.

Objective: Although a small proportion of helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) missions are for pediatric patients, it is recognized that children do present unique challenges. This case series aims to evaluate the intubation first-pass success rate in HEMS pediatric patients for both medical and trauma patients in a UK semiurban environment.

Methods: A retrospective review of the computerized records system was performed from January 1, 2015, to July 31, 2022, at 1 UK HEMS.

Impact of mandatory COVID-19 shelter-in-place order on controlled substance use among rural versus urban communities in the United States.

Purpose: Mandatory COVID-19 shelter-in-place (SIP) orders have been imposed to fight the pandemic. They may also have led to unintended consequences of increased use of controlled substances especially among rural communities due to increased social isolation. Using the data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers, this study tests the hypothesis that the poison control centers received higher rates of calls related to exposures to controlled substances from rural counties than they did from urban counties during the SIP period.

Palliative care nurses' experiences of clinical supervision: a qualitative evidence synthesis.

Background: Clinical supervision provides support and facilitates professional and personal development.

Aim: To identify and synthesise all available qualitative research on palliative care nurses' experiences of clinical supervision.

Methods: Guided by the 'enhancing transparency in reporting the synthesis of qualitative research' (ENTREQ) statement, eight databases were searched using a systematic search strategy (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PubMed, PsycINFO, Medline, Web of Science, ProQuest, Embase, Psychological and Behavioural Sciences).

A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF HYPOTONIC HYPER-HYDRATION FLUIDS ON SODIUM BALANCE IN PAEDIATRIC HAEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY PATIENTS RECEIVING CHEMOTHERAPY.

Aims: To determine the effect, if any, that hyper-hydration with hypotonic fluids has on sodium balance in paediatric haematology/oncology patients receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy treatment for malignancies.

Methods: A literature review was carried out and a snapshot of current practice across paediatric haematology/oncology centres in the UK was obtained. A prospective study was carried out in a tertiary paediatric haematology/oncology centre.

Administration of G-CSF from day +6 post-allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children and adolescents accelerates neutrophil engraftment but does not appear to have an impact on cost savings.

G-CSF post-allogeneic HSCT accelerates neutrophil engraftment, but evidence that it impacts on cost-related outcomes is lacking. We performed a retrospective child and adolescent single-center cohort study examining G-CSF administration from Day +6 of allogeneic HSCT vs. ad hoc G-CSF use where clinically indicated.