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Preoperative Staphylococcus aureus Carriage and Risk of Surgical Site Infection After Cardiac Surgery in Children Younger than 1 year: A Pilot Cohort Study
Surgical site infections (SSI) increase length of stay, morbidity, mortality and cost of hospitalization. Staphylococcus aureus (SA) carriage is a known risk factor of SSI in adults, but its role in pediatrics re...
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Open AccessValidation of the PECARN clinical decision rule for children with minor head trauma: a French multicenter prospective study
To date, the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) rule for identifying children who are at very low risk of clinically-important traumatic brain injuries after minor head trauma has not b...
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A new procalcitonin cord-based algorithm in early-onset neonatal infection: for a change of paradigm
Diagnostic of early-onset neonatal infection (EONI) remains an emergency. Recent studies underline the potential benefit of using Procalcitonin (PCT) in early diagnosis of bacterial infections in neonates. The...
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Infections nosocomiales en réanimation pédiatrique
Nous ne traiterons dans ce chapitre que le cas des nourrissons et enfants admis en réanimation médico-chirurgicale, en excluant notamment les nouveau-nés prématurés. Les mesures applicables à tout malade hospi...
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Healthcare-associated infection prevention in pediatric intensive care units: a review
The objective of this review was to summarize the current knowledge base on the prevention of nosocomial infections in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a cruc...
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Umbilical cord blood procalcitonin as a risk factor for mortality in very premature infants
Fetal inflammatory response syndrome is implicated as a cause of fetal or neonatal injury. We analyzed the relationship between the procalcitonin umbilical cord blood level and neonatal outcome. A total of 237...
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Référentiel métier-compétences pour la surspécialité de médecine d’urgence pédiatrique
La spécialité de pédiatrie doit se structurer autour d’un « tronc commun » de pédiatrie générale suivi d’une surspécialité pédiatrique, comme la pédiatrie d’urgence, dont l’enseignement recommandé est respectivem...
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Utilisation des biomarqueurs en pédiatrie
L’utilisation des biomarqueurs en pédiatrie est une pratique ancienne et courante. En effet, le manque de spécificité des signes cliniques chez l’enfant, en particulier d’âge préverbal, rend parfois peu inform...
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Umbilical cord blood procalcitonin level in early neonatal infections: a 4-year university hospital cohort study
This article describes a study of procalcitonin (PCT) measured in cord blood as a discriminating marker of early-onset neonatal infection. This was a monocenter retrospective study with prospective collection ...
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Almond oil implicated in a Staphylococcus capitis outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit
To develop an effective outbreak-control strategy by identifying the source and modes of transmission of Staphylococcus capitis in a 60-bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
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Currarino syndrome as an etiology of a neonatal Escherichia coli meningitis
We report the case of a 29-day-old baby girl in whom Escherichia coli meningitis led to the diagnosis of Currarino syndrome (CS) (OMIM 176450), an autosomal-dominant genetic disorder associated with sacral agenes...
