Emergency Medicine News

In this video, Paul Steinhauser, MD, captain of the U.S. Air Force and second-year internal medicine resident at San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, reviews a case report of vaping-induced lung injury.

In this video, Heba Osman, DO, first-year internal medicine-pediatrics resident at Wayne State University and Detroit Medical Center, discusses a case report of a rare neurological condition known as Hashimoto’s encephalopathy.

As of Thursday, New York said it was investigating 110 cases and three deaths among children experiencing a syndrome that has features similar to atypical Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome. New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has said that 60% of children with the syndrome tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection, and the other 40% had antibodies specific to the coronavirus, which causes COVID-19.

As health care workers begin to understand the scope of COVID-19 in their areas and how to respond to it, a new anxiety has set in: How long will the pandemic last?

From 2007 to 2016, pediatric ED visits for all mental health disorders increased by 60% in the United States, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

It would be a mistake to underestimate the effect that COVID-19 has on children, particularly in light of recent reports of children experiencing a serious inflammatory syndrome that has been linked to SARS-CoV-2 infection, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, said Tuesday.

Three New York children have died from a serious illness that may be related to COVID-19, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced. The illness has symptoms that resemble Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome.

So far this year, 88 nurses have died of COVID-19 as of May 6, according to National Nurses United, or NNU, the largest union of registered nurses in the United States.

Kawasaki disease was first characterized in the late 1960s and was previously called “mucocutaneous lymph node disease.” Recently, hospitals in several countries have reported children with Kawasaki-like symptoms possibly associated with COVID-19. We have seen a few cases at my hospital, and they can be quite challenging.

An NIH-funded study will seek answers to questions about COVID-19 in children. The Human Epidemiology and Response to SARS-CoV-2, or HEROS, study will attempt to determine the rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and the percentage of infected children who develop symptoms of COVID-19, the NIH announced.