Emergency Medicine News

Injuries associated with infant walkers — a product designed to allow infants between the ages of 5 and 15 months to walk independently before these skills are developed — have decreased significantly since the enactment of federal mandatory safety standards. However, research published in Pediatrics suggested that these products provide no benefit to children and continue to increase their risk of injury, especially to their head and neck.

The CDC published 19 recommendations in JAMA Pediatrics to assist physicians in diagnosing, treating and estimating the prognosis of mild traumatic brain injury in children.

Children aged younger than 2 years made up a large percentage of ED visits for antibiotic adverse drug events, or ADEs, according to study results published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

Naloxone prescriptions among youth in the United States rose more than 600% from 2017 to 2022, according to findings published in Pediatrics.