Abstract: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is the most common and important respiratory morbidity of prematurity, affecting thousands of infants worldwide annually. In this presentation, I will highlight the significance of BPD from both individual and societal perspectives, disc [....] » Read More
Abstract Background: Substance withdrawal is one of the most common advert events in the pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), as the administration of potent opiates and sedative drugs is frequently performed several times each day. Objectives: To describe challenges in the [....] » Read More
The use of human breast milk has long been considered the standard for infant feeding and nutrition. The benefits of breastmilk have been shown to be especially valuable in the growth and development of preterm infants with decreased rates of necrotizing enterocolitis, decr [....] » Read More
Lactose Intolerance is a condition that results from inadequate digestion and absorption of foods containing lactose. In order to be absorbed, lactose is broken down to D-glucose and D- galactose, which is facilitated by the enzyme lactase. Approximately 70% of the world’s [....] » Read More
Congenital huge neck swellings causing airway obstruction in neonates are very rare pathological lesions and they carry a potentially lethal prognosis if not immediately diagnosed and managed properly. The site of their origin, cyst [....] » Read More
Abstract: Objective: Acute rhinosinusitis is a disease that is often confused with viral upper respiratory tract infections during childhood. This study was carried out on physicians working in pediatrics and child's health, otorhinolaryngology, and family medicine fiel [....] » Read More
It only takes a moment for a small child to find and swallow something poisonous. The most common accidental ingestions in children are of household products, such as cleaning substances, medications, cosmetics, personal care products, and foreign bodies. Often, the products are [....] » Read More
Introduction: The Incidence of Autism, ADHD and LD is increasing. We need to reduce it in a easy and simple way. How & why the Immunization and Developmental Card Developed: We need a very simple and quick method to assess development in a busy paediatric office practice [....] » Read More
The phacomatoses are congenital disorders associated with defect of tumor suppressing gene, affecting tissues of ectodermal origin as, nervous system, the skin, the retina, visceral organs. In classical group of phacomatoses 4 diseases are included: Von Recklinghausen [....] » Read More
Introduction: In 2015, Yemen spiraled into armed crisis and the ongoing fighting, which has been dating back to 2011 with low level of conflict, has escalated and pushing Yemen to the brink of famine. The study aimed to describe the pattern of undernutrition and outcome indi [....] » Read More
Background: Although prematurity was the leading cause of neonatal mortality, the survival rate and its predictors may be varied from setting to setting and time to time. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the survival probability and predictors of mortality among preterm neon [....] » Read More
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a severely degenerative, inherited disorder of skeletal and cardiac muscles that affects 1 in 3500 male births. Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD) is also an inherited disease with a male distribution pattern and a clinical picture similar to tha [....] » Read More
An omphalocele is a ventral defect of the umbilical ring resulting in herniation of the abdominal viscera. Omphaloceles occur in 1 in 3,000 to 10,000 live births. Associated malformations such as chromosomal, cardiac, or genitourinary abnormalities are common. Postnatal managemen [....] » Read More
Objective: To study the seroprevalence, clinical and laboratory profile, and differentiating features of scrub typhus in children. Methods: Children admitted or presenting to OPD at a public teaching hospital with acute undifferentiated febrile illness, between September [....] » Read More
Background: A foetal cystic hygroma (FCH) is a congenital malformation that presents as fluid filled sacs in the lymphatic system. The prognosis of cystic hygromas depends on the stage of diagnosis, with those identified in the first trimester displaying poorer prognoses. Li [....] » Read More
Background and Aim: Congenital diaphragmatic herniae (CDH) have a high incidence rate on the Maltese islands, but little is known about their associations and maternal risk factors. A nationwide study in a country where abortion is still illegal, allowing more data to be use [....] » Read More
Aim: To determine the feasibility and effectiveness of a non-servocontrolled cooling method during transportation of asphyxiated infants with suspected HIE (Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy) with the aim to reduce the time it takes to start cooling in low resource settings. Met [....] » Read More
Background: A lobectomy is a surgical procedure where an entire lobe of the lung is removed, wherein the pulmonary vein, pulmonary artery and bronchus to the involved lobe are individually dissected, ligated and divided. The first robotic lobectomy worldwide was performed [....] » Read More
Background: Pediatric acute liver failure (ALF) is a devastating disease in which previously healthy children rapidly lose hepatic function due to a variety of causes and become critically ill within days. Management is largely supportive and only few conditions are amenable to d [....] » Read More
Title : Cost Analysis of Telehealth for Management of Infantile Hemangioma in the United States
Christopher S Snyder, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, United States
Background: Hemangiomas are the most common soft-tissue tumors affecting neonates and rarely lead to complications. Objectives: Assess cost-effectiveness of management of infantile hemangiomas via Telehealth (TH) versus in-person (IP) visits. Methods: P [....] » Read More
Title : Quantitation of Oral-Motor Function during feeding of Neonates
Neil R M Buist, Oregon Health & Science University, United States
Background: Feeding problems in small infants are extremely common; they are usually assessed by trained clinical observers. We describe a small device that captures continuous sucking pressures that can be used to provide information about a number of oral physiologic parameters [....] » Read More
Title : Long-term predictivity of early neurological assessment and developmental trajectories in low-risk preterm infants
Gabriella Di Rosa , University Hospital of Messina, Italy
Preterm birth is defined by the WHO as a live birth before 37 completed weeks of gestation and an increase has been recently recorded, representing nowadays the 10,6% of all births. Prematurity is considered a risk factor both for shorter- and longer-term complications and it is [....] » Read More
Title : Being on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit - The Role of Psychology in Critical Care
Izel Caliskan, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, United Kingdom
The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is, for many a place where there are significant levels of physical and emotional distress. Over the last decade, there has been greater awareness of the experiences and needs of children, parents, and staff in PICU. The British Paediatri [....] » Read More
Title : Effect of PIOMI with tactile kinesthetic respiratory muscle stimulation on neurobehavioural regulation in Preterm Infants- Pilot study
Shailaja Sandeep Jaywant , L.T.M.Medical College & G.Hospital, India
Introduction / Rationale: In preterm infants development of feeding skills are may be affected due to inappropriate neurobehavioural organisation, leading to delays the discharge from the hospital. Premature infant oral motor intervention (PIOMI), has shown the [....] » Read More
Title : Neonatal Feeding Assessment as a Predictor of Neuromotor Integrity and Developmental Outcomes: A Scoping Review
Deepa Awasthi, L.T.M.Medical College & G.Hospital, India
Background: Nervous system development and maturity of sucking organization, occur in parallel. Clinical assessment of an infant’s oral-motor system, may provide an inexpensive measure of early neurological function. Aim: To analyse Neonatal Feeding Assessment [....] » Read More
Title : Safety and Efficacy of Unique implantation of Loop Recorder in Pediatric Patients
Christopher S Snyder, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, United States
Intro: Insertable cardiac monitors (ICM) allow evaluation of symptom-rhythm correlation. ICMs are commonly used in adults but remain uncommon in pediatric arrhythmia evaluation. Current recommendations call for ICM implant in a diagonal direction on the left anterior chest. Skin [....] » Read More
Title : Children, adolescence and climate crisis
Chrysoula Papachristou, University of Athens, Greece
Climate change threatens human health, including mental health, and access to clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food, and shelter. Everyone is affected by climate change at some point in their lives. Some people are more affected by climate change than others because of [....] » Read More
Title : Priapismus as a Rare Manifestation of Leukemia in Children and Delay of Medical Help Seeking due to Local Value in Indonesia’s Society
Annisa Bunga Nafara, Fatmawati Central General Hospital , Indonesia
Priapismus is the erection of penis without sexual stimulation that could happens due to blood abnormality, trapped in penis vessel, such as leukemia disease. Priapismus is rarely seen in leukemia, especially in Indonesia. However, as a developing country, there is another proble [....] » Read More
Title : Causes of pediatric Mortality among Cases Admitted to pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Al- Sabeen Hospital ,Sana’a. -Yemen
Abdullah Ali Abdullah Gafer, Ministry of Public Health, Yemen
The world has made substantial progress in reducing child mortality over the last four decades. Several factors, such as implementation of high-impact child survival interventions, health system strengthening, improvements in maternal education and family income, commitments of p [....] » Read More
Title : The Effect Of Different Techniques Of Breast Milk Expression In It’s Fat Content In Mothers Of Preterm Infant
Rihab Ahmed Sadek, Ministry of health , Egypt
Introduction: Although human milk is the preferred nutrition for premature infants, the major limitations have been inadequate supply(Furman et al., 2002)and suboptimal nutrients for the infant to achieve optimal growth. More effective milk expression techniques may address [....] » Read More
Title : Esophageal Achalasia in an Adolescent: A Case Report
Corinna Mae R Carag, St. Luke’s Medical Center- Global City, Philippines
Achalasia of the esophagus is a very rare condition, with an estimated annual incidence of 1:100,000 cases overall, and less than 5% of which occur in children (0.11 per 100,000 pediatric patients). In the Philippines, only 3 cases have been reported in the Philippine Pediatric S [....] » Read More
Title : Multicolored MIS-C, a single-centre cohort study
Petra Varga, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Objective: To describe the clinical and laboratory charactheristics, as well as the outcome of children with MIS-C in our institute. Method: Our study is a single-centre, partly retrospective, partly prospective, observational cohort study on patients aged from 1 month to 19 y [....] » Read More
Title : Students with autism in the first person. points of view of students with asd and their families on the inclusive educational experience in mainstream schools in the province of Misiones, Argentina
Josefina Mazal Cemborain, Creer y Crear, Argentina
Abstract: Background: Misiones is a province in the northeast of the Argentine. Its population is diverse and with great cultural contributions has descendants of local Guarani aboriginal communities and European immigration. At present there are no epidemiological st [....] » Read More
Title : Protective Efficacy of Hepatitis B Immunoglobulin & Hepatitis B Vaccination in Infants born to HBsAg-positive Mothers
Ma Samantha De La Paz, Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital, Philippines
Background: HBV infection is highly endemic in the Philippines. The WHO estimates that the prevalence of HBV is about 1 in 10 people. Moreover, a study in 2013 reported a HBsAg seroprevalence of 16.7%, translating to an estimated 7.3 million Filipino adults. Chronic hepatitis B i [....] » Read More
Title : Cardiac arrest in a child due to community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus: case report
Yoon Kyung Cho, Catholic University of Korea Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital, Korea, Republic of
Background: Staphylococcus aureus was rare pathogen in children. Recently, its incidence has increased and became a significant cause of community acquired (CA) infection. It is important to know the characteristic, as it can lead to adverse outcomes, including pneumatoceles [....] » Read More
Title : Red Blood Cell Distribution Width (RDW) and its Predictive Role in the Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis
Lileth D C Lobederio, St. Luke’s Medical Center- Quezon City, Philippines
Background: Diagnosis of neonatal sepsis remains to be a challenge because of its nonspecific symptoms and the limitations in sensitivities and specificities of laboratory markers. Recent studies have shown correlation between ted cell distribution width (RDW) with sepsis an [....] » Read More