ALLMedicine™ Pediatric Pneumonia Center

May 19th, 2022 - Clinical symptoms and inflammatory markers cannot reliably distinguish the etiology of CAP, and chest radiographs have abundant information related with CAP. Hence, we developed a context-fusion convolution neural network (CNN) to explore the appl...

May 16th, 2022 - Antibiotics for Pediatric Pneumonia: Might Less Be Enough?: June 2022 Annals of Emergency Medicine Journal Club.|2022|Grossman D,Swaminathan A,|therapeutic use,drug therapy,

Apr 29th, 2022 - Physicians routinely treat sick children in the emergency department (ED). Many relevant articles on pediatric medicine are published in journals that are not typically read by many general emergency medicine physicians. We reviewed salient pediat...

Apr 20th, 2022 - Parapneumonic effusions and empyema are the most frequent complication of pediatric pneumonia. Interventions include chest drain and fibrinolytics (CDF) or thoracoscopic surgery. CDF is considered less invasive, and more cost-effective though with...

Mar 31st, 2022 - POCUS is an example of technologies that are moving out of hospitals and to the point-of-care. The true potential of these novel diagnostics to improve global pediatric pneumonia outcomes will only be realized if they can be employed by CHWs in co...

Mar 31st, 2022 - POCUS is an example of technologies that are moving out of hospitals and to the point-of-care. The true potential of these novel diagnostics to improve global pediatric pneumonia outcomes will only be realized if they can be employed by CHWs in co...

Mar 10th, 2022 - Respiratory illnesses are among the most common causes for inpatient pediatric hospitalizations every year. The most common respiratory illnesses that make up these hospitalizations include pneumonia, acute bronchiolitis, and asthma. Pneumonia is ...

Feb 16th, 2022 - Clinical features of pneumonia in children include fever, respiratory distress, and hypoxemia. Respiratory distress is a useful clinical summary description with good inter-observer consistency among experienced medical practitioners. The followin...

May 3rd, 2018 - Despite laudable reductions in global childhood mortality rates, pneumonia remains the second most frequent killer of children less than five years old worldwide. Nearly one million children succumbed to pneumonia in 2013, with greater than half o...

Apr 25th, 2017 - The purpose of the study is to create a clinical pneumonia tool that can be used to predict the cause of community-acquired pneumonia, which is a lung infection that began outside of the hospital in critically ill children therefore limiting unnec...

Dec 29th, 2021 - The most common pediatric diagnoses in U.S. hospitals were bronchiolitis, pneumonia, and asthma, according to a cross-sectional analysis of 2016 data, and they also proved to be the most costly. An analysis of the Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) sh...

Mar 23rd, 2020 - Bacterial pneumonia is caused by a pathogenic infection of the lungs and may present as a primary disease process or as the final, fatal disorder, primarily in an individual who is already debilitated. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is one of ...

Mar 2nd, 2020 - Hospitalization rates for infants and children younger than 5 years are the highest on record at this point in the season, "surpassing rates reported during the second wave of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic," according to the latest report from the Center...

Mar 2nd, 2020 - Hospitalization rates for infants and children younger than 5 years are the highest on record at this point in the season, "surpassing rates reported during the second wave of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic," according to the latest report from the Center...

Nov 20th, 2018 - The Predictive Value of a CXR in Suspected Pneumonia Clinicians often face uncertainty about whether they can rely on a negative chest x-ray (CXR) to rule out pneumonia in a child, even when other clinical signs and symptoms may have raised that c...