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The American Academy of Pediatrics said in a letter to the Consumer Product Safety Commission that weighted blankets should never be used for babies.
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#### What you need to know
Children and young people can have a wide range of life limiting conditions and may sometimes live with such conditions for many years. This guideline recommends that end of life care be managed as a long term process that begins at the time of diagnosis of a life limiting condition and entails planning for the future. Sometimes it may begin before the child’s birth. It is part of the overall care of the child or young person and runs in parallel with other active treatments for the underlying condition itself.1 Finally, it includes those aspects related to the care of the dying.
This guideline was commissioned with the aim to standardise end of life care for infants, children, and young people living with a life limiting condition, and thus promote equity and consistency. Important themes are to involve children and young people and their parents or carers in decisions about their care, facilitate their care in their preferred location (most likely home), and plan for day and night care.
This article summarises the most recent guidance from the recent National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on the planning and management of end of life care in infants, children, and young people.2 For a visual summary, please …
WHO and Unicef recommend children should be breastfed within an hour of being born
The class is part of a broader effort to shed scientific light on fathers’ roles in child and family well-being.
Women often express a fear of giving birth en route to the hospital, and these fears have some basis.
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Sara Fleming, Clinical Lead Paediatric Palliative Care, Women's and Children's Hospital provides advice for staff new to paediatric palliative care, from…
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The expiratory time constant (RCexp) is measured breath-by-breath on all Hamilton Medical ventilators. As RCexp is the product of compliance and resistance, this single variable gives us an overview of the overall respiratory mechanics.
It is very useful for diagnosing the lung condition and its severity in order to optimize the ventilator settings (1). In pediatric patients, compliance (C) and resistance (R) must always be checked in parallel to differentiate clearly between restrictive versus obstructive and mixed disease. Mixed disease is a common lung condition in pediatric patients with acute respiratory failure.
This bedside tip provides examples of adjusting settings for pressure, tidal volume (Vt), inspiratory and expiratory time (Ti, Te), and frequency according to the measured airway mechanics (RCexp, C, R) for different lung conditions in children. Note that the flow curve should also be checked in all cases to avoid end-inspiratory and end-expiratory flow interruption. This promotes the best gas distribution during Ti and helps avoid AutoPEEP/air-trapping during Te.
Our study found babies born via medical or surgical intervention were at increased risk of health problems, from jaundice and feeding issues, to diabetes, respiratory infections and eczema.
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