Emergency Medicine News

Among children and adolescents in Israel, use of psychiatric emergency departments declined sharply during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to the year prior, according to a study in BMC Psychiatry.

Edible cannabis exposures increased rapidly among young children in the United States in the past 5 years after many states’ legalized recreational cannabis, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Children with mental or behavioral health conditions are more likely to experience pharmacologic restraint in the ED if they are young, male or Black, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

The rate of children presenting with firearm injuries to U.S. hospitals increased by more than 50% during the pandemic, according to a research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Deaths involving fentanyl in people aged 10 to 19 years increased by 182% from 2019 to 2021, among other findings reported in a study published in MMWR.

The Biden administration is offering free at-home COVID-19 tests again as part of a winter preparedness plan announced by the White House amid an increase in cases that officials linked to indoor gatherings.

Lysogene has announced topline results from its phase 2/3 study evaluating LYS-SAF302, an investigational gene therapy for the treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA, or Sanfilippo syndrome.

The 35th annual Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will be held Nov. 19 and 20 in New York.

Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago held a press conference last week to remind parents about safe sleeping practices and the risk for infant sleep deaths.

Children are especially vulnerable to injuries from the use of ATVs, also known as quads, according to a study published in BMJ Open.