Pediatrics News

The American College of Surgeons released updated guidelines promoting lifelong competency and ability assessments for surgeons to enhance patient safety and preserve “physician dignity,” according to a press release.

Return to sport rates were higher for pediatric athletes who underwent unilateral medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction compared with bilateral MPFL reconstruction, according to published results.

Results showed a decrease in sports participation and physical activity from middle school to high school, with a significant number of students specializing in a single sport or no longer participating as they entered high school.

The National Athletic Trainers’ Association hosted a virtual media briefing to update its recommendations for the management of sport-related concussions, according to a press release.

SAN FRANCISCO — Results presented here showed varus or valgus alignment may be a nonmodifiable risk factor for patellofemoral instability in pediatric and adolescent patients.

There is much written about the virtue of compassion, which literally means “to suffer together.” A more practical definition would be sympathetic awareness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it.

SAN FRANCISCO — Results presented here showed arthroscopic hip labral repair may be durable and efficacious in young, competitive athletes, with low revision rates and satisfactory continuance of sport at 10-year follow-up.

SAN FRANCISCO — Surgery may be the best treatment for moderate to severe contractures in pediatric patients who are idiopathic toe-walkers, according to results presented here.

SAN FRANCISCO — Results presented here showed fresh osteochondral allograft transplantation yielded a low rate of complications and a high rate of return to sports in patients with unstable capitellar osteochondritis dissecans.

An 11-year-old left hand-dominant boy with no medical or surgical history presented to the pediatric orthopedic surgery clinic approximately 5 months after falling off a trampoline and falling directly onto his right shoulder.