#Pediatrics

BCH Infectious Diseases

BCHPedsID

1/Few learning slides/points from case conference this morning!Can PIVs (peripheral catheters) be the source of blood stream infections? - yesCheck out these two recent papers:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31615450/ https://pubmed.nc

David Cook

davidcookmed

Very proud to see our #QI work published this week in @AAPpediatrics's journal Pediatrics! We describe our efforts to improve pediatric inpatient #sleep by modifying overnight monitoring practices. A little

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

NC schools experience:11 districts data; ~100k in person schoolAug to Oct 2020NC had 1-2 cases per 1k pop (that's brisk)733 community acq casesIf schools' transmission mirrored the stateExpected 800+ cases

Joshua Ferrell

Josh__Ferrell

1/8 This study about transmission in NC schools is getting a lot of attention. My thoughts;https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/01/06/peds.2020-048090@JMartin4Schools @votekeithsutton @WRAL 2/8 Prevalence in NC had rema

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

Again, don't tell me @WHCOS is science based.He isn't. This is all about partisanship. Not science.https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1354234528332656642 The media, who screamed 'PARTY OF SCIENCE!' every single day last

Jeff Linder

jeffreylinder

Delayed antibiotics are a bad idea. New RCT. New thread. 1/12@theresa_rowe1 and I wrote about this in @JAMA_current.A new -- and very good -- RCT in Pediatrics confirms problems with

Kate Taylor

katetaylornyt

One thing has jumped out at me from recent studies of transmission in schools: The seeming rarity with which students transmit the virus to school staff. This should be reassuring

Dana Goldstein

DanaGoldstein

1. Why is the American Academy of Pediatrics pushing strongly to reopen physical schools -- even without 6 feet of distancing for kids? I got the chance to ask

J. A zombie ate my brain

JLCederblom

Looks like it's time to #FactCheckJack again. Turban has a history of ignoring all criticism and pretending it isn't there, but for the paper "Pubertal Suppression for Transgender Youth and

Ewon

EwonSprokler

credit @MarcelZLena cc @manusthecaptain @Elisa59 Holy balls (1/3)Dutch Minister of Health, Hugo de Jonge, has transferred huge sums of taxpayer money to GAVI Vaccine Alliance. Here he is signing a

john

jhal9000

If you listen to the video in the linked article, the sounds the doll makes when the button is pushed are, uh, definitely not giggles, and rather sound like something

Atul Butte

atulbutte

Here's the slide I showed today at @UCSFChildrens Pediatrics Grand Rounds. What do the bullets mean? Here's a thread To me, "junior faculty" should be a state of funding, NOT

Audiology Outside the Box PLLC

AudOTB

Cochlear implant fact of the day: there is no credible evidence that sign language causes poor spoken language outcomes in children with CIs. Read this one carefully! Little research exists

Luke Murray

Irish_Physio

So I'd never heard of Play Therapists until this week. They usually work in pediatrics helping to normalise the hospital environment for kids.They've been redeployed to our elderly care wards

DrEmpath ✨

aproudempath

Enough of negativity.#MedTwitter let's share some positive Doctor- patient stories.Because, I know we have plenty of those too!I have met such gracious, gratefulness patients in such a short span of

David Zweig

davidzweig

MAJOR THREAD: This Israel article is going to alter the debate about schools. It has a lot of useful information, but its framing, and its title (which is the only

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