Monitoring motor evoked potentials is desirable during spine surgery but may be difficult to obtain in small children. In addition, the recording of reliable signals is often hampered by the presence of various anesthetics. We report the case of a young child whose motor evoked potentials were successfully monitored using a ketamine-based anesthesia and a newly introduced stimulation technique consisting of combined spatial and temporal facilitation.
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Travel Med Infect Dis
January 2025
Pediatrics and emergency department, Hospital Jean VERDIER, Avenue du 14 juillet, Bondy, FRANCE.
Introduction: The return of foreign fighters's children whose parents joined the so called « islamic state » in the Iraq-Syrian area, had been a very controversial topic. Since 2017, a national procedure in France has been designed to coordinate their care, including a systematic pediatric medical assessment.
Methods: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess the prevalence rate of diseases diagnosed at their arrival in France.
Clin Nutr ESPEN
January 2025
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, faculty of public health, Jimma University, Jimma Ethiopia. Electronic address:
Background: Strategies for achieving improved nutrition in young children in developing countries where plant-based complementary foods are the main source of nutrients can address the challenge of meeting nutritional needs from these foods.
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the effect of counseling about complementary food flour soaking on nutritional and health status of children 6-23 months.
Methods: A total of 726 mother-child pairs (intervention n=363 and control n=363) were enrolled in this study.
J Pediatr Psychol
January 2025
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States.
Objective: Family functioning influences various psychosocial outcomes for individuals with pediatric chronic health conditions (e.g., Leeman, J.
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December 2024
Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Background: In March 2022, a concerning rise in cases of unexplained pediatric hepatitis was reported in multiple countries. Cases were defined as acute hepatitis with serum transaminases >500 U/L (aspartate transaminase [AST] or alanine transaminase [ALT]) in children aged 16 years or younger. We explored a simple federated data analytics method to search for evidence of unreported cases using routinely held data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Infect Dev Ctries
December 2024
Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Türkiye.
Introduction: The frequency of scabies and its relationship with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a current scientific curiosity in Turkey and worldwide. The data presented in this article will help raise awareness of dermatologists in situations such as pandemic-induced quarantines where scabies can spread rapidly.
Methodology: This was a retrospective study to compare patients who presented with scabies and were evaluated during the COVID-19 pandemic, with those who presented before and after the pandemic, in terms of the diagnosis ratios.
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