Sweet sins: frequency and psychiatric motivation for theft among adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

Background: Behavioral problems are an issue among adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D). The authors hypothesize that theft, possibly because of an underlying psychiatric morbidity, may be a way of procuring sweets leading to worse glycemic control.

Objective: To evaluate psychiatric morbidity and the association of theft and metabolic control among children and adolescents with T1D, using data from an interim analysis of an ongoing quality-of-life and psychiatric comorbidity study.

Procalcitonin in the early diagnosis of nosocomial sepsis in preterm neonates.

Aim: To examine the diagnostic usefulness of procalcitonin (PCT), C-reactive protein and immature to total neutrophil ratio (I : T) in nosocomial sepsis among neonates treated in an intensive care unit.

Methods: A retrospective analysis and comparison of diagnostic utility performed in preterm neonates using receiver operating characteristic curves for the diagnosis of culture-proven sepsis.

Results: A total of 78 clinically suspected sepsis episodes in 73 newborns were analysed.

Hyperkalemia and cardiac arrest following succinylcholine administration in a 16-year-old boy with acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia and sepsis.

Objectives: To report a case of potentially lethal hyperkalemia related to succinylcholine administration.

Design: Case report.

Setting: A 13-bed pediatric intensive care unit in a tertiary level, university-based children's hospital.