Association between enteral feeding and gastrointestinal complications in children receiving extracorporeal life support: A retrospective cohort study.

Background: Extracorporeal life support is an accepted treatment modality for children with severe cardiac and/or respiratory dysfunction. However, after a period of inadequate gut perfusion, clinicians are often reluctant to initiate enteral nutrition.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study in a single large pediatric intensive care unit in North West England over 5.

Childhood pneumonia diagnostics: a narrative review.

Background: Childhood pneumonia remains the leading infectious cause of death in children with highest mortality figures in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. The primary etiologies are bacterial and viral; however, challenges in distinguishing bacterial and non-bacterial causes have culminated in antimicrobial overuse which has partly contributed to the rise in antimicrobial resistance, most notably among children in low- and middle-income countries.

Areas Covered: Existing literature was reviewed regarding modalities available, including emerging radiological and laboratory techniques, to diagnose childhood pneumonia.

A Personal Critical Analysis of the Foundation Programme Curriculum.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. The Foundation Programme (FP) is a two-year period where medical graduates are able to learn in the workplace in the United Kingdom.