"Some clear warnings from it: Infants shouldn’t sleep with blankets, stuffed toys, or bumpers that 'can potentially lead to suffocation or strangulation,' said Samantha St. John, program coordinator for Cook Children’s Health Care System in Fort Worth, Texas. They also should sleep in cribs or bassinets — not on beds with siblings or in parents’ arms."

This is why I love those Finnish baby boxes.

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/safe-infant-sleep-sids-suffocation-strangulation-messaging/

#publichealth #pediatrics #primarycare #backtosleep #sleep

Anyone use #freed.ai or other #ai tools to complete #medical notes?
Even in the simpler #DPC model, taking notes is distracting while talking to patients and finishing notes later so that they are useful to others is a time consuming chore.
No relationship to freed.ai nor any other software, just hate this task and starting to read good things from colleagues online.

#primarycare #familymedicine
#internalmedicine #pediatrics #directprimarycare

This is interesting - providing individualised antibiotic plans safely reduces #carbapenem prescriptions.

But isn't this just what happens in specialties, like #hematology or #intensivecare, that get regular #microbiology / #infectiousdisease #MDT review of their #antibiotic prescriptions?
#IDmastodon #medicine #oncology #orthopedics #ICU #AMR #pediatrics #criticalcare
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad518/7255898?redirectedFrom=fulltext&utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=cid&utm_medium=email

From @STAT:
"A new paper suggests a simple fix to the primary care physician shortage"

TLDR? Have #medicare ( #CMS ) pay them more. #healthinsurance too

This has been discussed in the media and a big subject of advocacy for decades but apparently you can still publish a paper about it now.

#directprimarycare allows physicians and patients to fix #primarycare without waiting for this.
#internalmedicine #pediatrics #familymedicine #medmastodon #RUC #AMA
@missanabeem
https://www-statnews-com.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/2023/09/01/primary-care-physician-shortage/

“This #cohort study including 31 785 hospitalized children with #SARSCoV2 infection suggested that while #IntensiveCareUnit admission decreased over the course of the pandemic in all age groups, #ventilatory and #oxygen support did not decrease over time in children aged younger than 5 years. #COVID19 #pediatrics #ICU https://med-mastodon.com/@flavia_feijo_epi/110974375770421080

"Some 42 million children who come from low-income families or have a disability are covered by Medicaid and the related Children's Health Insurance Program. Schools offer a convenient setting to provide health care services to many of those kids — in addition to disability services required by law — but many states haven't been taking advantage of funding that's long been available through Medicaid and CHIP."

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/29/medicaid-school-funding-mental-health

#healthcare #pediatrics #primarycare #schools #medicaid

"Texas families and doctors are suing the state to block Senate Bill 14 from going into effect Sept. 1. That new law would ban transgender youth from taking puberty blockers, receiving hormone therapies and having surgery, the latter of which is rarely performed on minors...The plaintiffs assert that the new law violates their parental rights and interferes with their ability to practice medicine."

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/15/texas-sb-14-lawsuit-gender-affirming-care/

#lgbtq #transgender #healthcare #texas #txlege #pediatrics

"Latino children living in states with more of these [anti-immigrant laws and policies] policies and attitudes were found to be 1.13 times more likely to have a chronic physical health condition and 1.24 times more likely to have multiple mental health conditions."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latino-children-anti-immigrant-states-poorer-health-pediatrics-study-rcna100063

#immigrant #health #disparities #pediatrics

„Slight Surge“ 🙄
leichter Anstieg um 84% 😳 an Konsultationen bei den Kinderärzten. Kindern unter zwei Jahren gehts mit #Corona auch nicht gut.

#pediatrics #covid

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202308/16/WS64dc1c24a31035260b81c64e.html

"...the team from Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies...jumped into action. They set up a 24-hour hotline to assist pregnant and postpartum people displaced by the fires, and are sending breast pumps, infant formula, diapers and many other supplies to the island from Oahu, where they are based. On Thursday, six members of their team including nurses, a midwife and a mental health provider traveled to Maui to staff a mobile health clinic..."

https://19thnews.org/2023/08/maui-wildfires-organization-how-to-help-pregnant-and-postpartum-people/

#pediatrics #publichealth #Maui

Elevated #binding and functional #antibody responses to #SARS-CoV-2 in #infants versus #mothers, Nat Commun.: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40554-w #immunity #immunology #pregnancy #pediatrics #medicine #research

"Some families facing a diaper crisis can get help from federal assistance programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Women, Infants and Children (WIC), but more families fall in a precarious and often invisible gap: Like Montero, they make 'too much' to qualify for federal aid, but they don’t make enough to meet their children’s basic needs, including diapers."

https://harvardpublichealth.org/equity/america-has-a-diaper-crisis-heres-what-policymakers-can-do/

#publichealth #diapers #pediatrics #primarycare

Many thanks to Thomas Nguyen, DO, pediatrician, and Frank Han, MD, pediatric cardiologist, for this discussion on pediatric long COVID.

#longCOVID #longCOVIDkids #LongHauler #pediatrics #TownHall

https://youtu.be/B8_-r_Nf_mY

Something ain’t right here. #education #mural #pediatrics

"Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that the rate of vaccinations against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) for kindergarteners has fallen below the healthy target rate of 95 percent for the second year in a row to 93 percent."

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4138265-childhood-vaccinations-falter-ahead-of-crucial-fall-season/

#publichealth #pediatrics #vaccinations #immunizations

"The American Academy of Pediatrics backed gender-related treatments for children on Thursday, reaffirming its position from 2018 on a medical approach that has since been banned in 19 states.

But the influential group of doctors also took an extra step of commissioning a systematic review of medical research on the treatments, following similar efforts in Europe that found uncertain evidence for their effectiveness in adolescents."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/health/aap-gender-affirming-care-evidence-review.html

#transgender #lgbtq #pediatrics

"A new review in #Pediatrics shows that 16.2% of children and adolescents have at least one #LongCOVID symptom. Kids are not spared from long term effects of COVID infection as was initially thought. In addition, as COVID cases increased, Type 1 #diabetes in #children and teens increased 10-fold."

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2022-060351/192816/A-Systematic-Review-of-Persistent-Clinical

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02322-0

Source: Dr Ruth Crystal

Assessing infant growth curves can be confusing, especially for #parents who have a child who is not growing in the normal range, or a clinician treating them. Digging into the data & #stats behind growth curves reveals how to improve their quality & use.
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/building-better-growth-curves
#pediatrics #IBCLC #healthcare #mother #publichealth #statistics #babies #breastfeeding

@Gustaf @joacim Jepp, funkar det som det är tänkt så kommer du, om du följer hashtaggen #pediatrics till exempel, få alla posts med den taggen i ditt flöde. Men eftersom många medicinska tidskrifter har RSS-flöde skulle man kunna samla alla dessa flöden i en och samma mastodon-bot. @stefanjohansson

"A systematic review today in Pediatrics of 31 studies published through December 2022 reveals that persistent symptoms 3 months after confirmed COVID-19 infections, or "long COVID," affect 16% of children and adolescents."

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-1-6-kids-have-persistent-covid-symptoms-3-months-after-infection

#COVID #longCOVID #pediatrics #primarycare