Common rheumatological disorders encountered in pediatric practice are juvenile idiopathic arthritis, systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, Kawasaki disease, Henoch-Schonlein purpura, systemic lupus erythematosus, chronic uveitis and juvenile dermatomyositis. Diagnosis of these disorders requires a critical appraisal of the clinical history, physical examination and relevant investigations. Laboratory tests are helpful for screening purposes as also for confirmation of diagnosis and monitoring of disease activity. These tests should, however, only be ordered after due deliberation and in the context of clinical findings in a given patient.
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JMIR Form Res
January 2025
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Background: Stigma toward transgender children and adolescents negatively impacts their health and educational outcomes. Contact with members of stigmatized groups can dismantle stereotypes and reduce stigma by facilitating exposure to the unique cognitive and emotional perspectives of individuals within the group. Recent evidence suggests that video-based contact interventions can be as effective as face-to-face encounters, but challenges lie in protecting the identities of transgender youth, since many of them live in stealth.
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January 2025
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey.
Background: Egg allergy is among the most common food allergies in children, significantly affecting the dietary habits and quality of life of both the affected children and their families. This study aims to assess the clinical role of the Basophil Activation Test (BAT) in children with egg allergy and to evaluate its diagnostic accuracy in comparison to other tests.
Methods: The study included 46 children with egg allergy.
JAMA Netw Open
January 2025
Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Importance: Family-centered care (FCC) in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) is critical for parental involvement and infant well-being, yet few studies have evaluated the impact of FCC interventions on practice or examined how implementation fidelity may affect these outcomes.
Objectives: To evaluate the association between the Close Collaboration With Parents intervention and FCC practices and how implementation fidelity may modify these outcomes.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This nonrandomized clinical trial had a before-and-after design.
Prehosp Emerg Care
January 2025
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd Portland, OR 97239.
Objectives: Out-of-hospital births are associated with a 2-to 11-fold increased risk of death compared to in-hospital births and are growing. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) clinicians have limited exposure to hospital birth emergencies, and there is no standardized prehospital neonatal resuscitation curriculum. Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) guidelines are the standard of care for infants born in the United States but focuses on in-hospital births and is not easily applied to EMS.
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January 2025
Occupational Therapy Program, Health Services Vocational School, Artvin Çoruh University.
Objectives: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), which is used in cases of life-threatening cardiopulmonary arrest, is a physically exhausting procedure. Adding to that, sometimes, even before performing CPR, interventions to rescue the injured person from a challenging environment have caused significant fatigue. In this study, taking a novel research approach, we generated a scenario of fatigue during a rescue from earthquake debris and aimed to measure the effect of that fatigue on the quality of CPR performed by paramedics.
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