Emergency Medicine News

Researchers at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition reported an increase in family violence-related injuries that involved alcohol, drugs, or weapons among adolescents who presented to a pediatric ED in Baltimore during the pandemic.

More than 6,500 children and adolescents experience a golf cart-related injury each year, according to data presented at the virtual AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

The rate of children who presented to nine pediatric trauma centers for nonaccidental trauma more than doubled while COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were in place last year, according to a study.

“Dry scooping” — a “dangerous” behavior in which pre-workout supplement powder is consumed with sips of water instead of a full glass — was “extremely prevalent” on the popular social media app TikTok, according to researchers.

A study published in JAMA Pediatrics linked exposure to gun violence to a rise in pediatric ED visits for mental health issues, especially for children who witnessed such actions.

Black pediatric patients are more likely to be physically restrained in EDs than their white peers, according to a study by researchers at Yale.

After out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, pediatric recipients of rescue breathing with CPR had better outcomes compared with those in their age group who received compression-only CPR, researchers reported.

From 1990 to 2019, an estimated 560,203 children were treated in United States EDs for injuries that were sustained when a piece of furniture or TV tipped over on them, a retrospective data analysis showed. Among them, 575 had died.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to unanimously pass a recommendation on the use of an approved three-dose dengue vaccine for children aged 9 to 16 years who live in endemic areas, by a vote of 14-0.

Regeneron’s antibody cocktail reduced the risk for death by 20% in patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 who had not mounted their own immune response, researchers from the phase 3 RECOVERY trial said Wednesday.