Emergency Medicine News

The Democratic governors of several states, including New Jersey and Delaware, announced this week that they will soon lift COVID-19 mask mandates in K-12 schools, joining other states that have already eliminated such measures.

Intent-to-treat survival among pediatric patients who have received a heart, liver or kidney transplant steadily improved over the past 3 decades, according to a study of more than 47,000 transplants.

In Canada, pediatric ED visits due to cannabis exposure significantly increased after recreational cannabis was legalized, according to recent data.

Pediatric hospitalizations due to COVID-19 reached a peak in recent weeks, according to CDC data.

Children from underrepresented populations, including those who lived in high-income areas, were at higher risk for postsurgical death than white children, a retrospective secondary analysis showed.

Researchers have begun a long-term study of the impacts of COVID-19 on children, the NIH announced.

The AAP has partnered with five hospitals on a new, multi-year initiative meant to assist parents in creating safe sleeping environments for their infants.

A lower dose of oral amoxicillin was noninferior to a higher dose in children with community-acquired pneumonia who were discharged from an ED or hospital ward, according to results of a 2x2 factorial, randomized clinical trial in JAMA.

A virtual reality intervention called “Bear Blast” significantly decreased pain and anxiety among children and teenagers while they underwent peripheral IV catheter placement, trial data showed.

Researchers may have found a way to predict the severity of COVID-19 infection in children by examining their saliva, according to a multi-institutional study presented at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.