Emergency Medicine News

TORONTO — Preliminary results of a project to educate practitioners about naloxone use showed it improved their knowledge of the opioid antagonist and significantly increased naloxone distribution to patients at a Los Angeles clinic.

TORONTO — A menu of options helped providers identify families’ desire for social resources better than a screening tool, according to findings presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

Participation in the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting is back to pre-COVID-19 levels of engagement, according to one of the event’s program chairs.

A decades-old AAP program that was created to help pediatricians prevent unintentional injuries in their patients was shown to be effective in the first ever randomized trial testing its use, according to findings published in Pediatrics.

The FDA has approved Lenmeldy as the first gene therapy to treat children with pre-symptomatic late infantile, pre-symptomatic early juvenile or early symptomatic early juvenile metachromatic leukodystrophy.

Among new nurses, receipt of virtual reality-based training vs. usual orientation led to more correct identification of respiratory distress in pediatric patients, according to results published in American Journal of Critical Care.

Personalized care could help patients and providers plan safe returns to work or school from respiratory illnesses, according to a research review.

Mass shootings on school campuses in the United States have become more deadly over the last 25 years, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Although the number of reported Lyme disease cases in the United States in 2022 was nearly double the annual average from 2017 to 2019, the actual increase is not likely to have been that large, according to experts.

Use of a conservative vs. liberal oxygenation saturation target reduced time spent on organ support or death at 30 days in ventilated pediatric ICU patients, according to study results published in The Lancet.