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Filter by:During general anesthesia, objective monitoring for analgesia is still lacking. The administration of opioids relies on the experience of the anesthesiologist. There are some monitors, e.g., Analgesia Nociception Index (ANI), showing that they can evaluate analgesia in adults. Recently, a Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Evaluation (NIPE) monitor was released for assessing analgesia in children with age less than 2 years. The investigators aim to assess the efficacy of NIPE as a guide for intraoperative fentanyl administration in children under 2 years.
Purpose: To determine the effect of 8-week kids yoga training on balance, reaction time and agility on children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Method: A randomized controlled trial. The intervention (kids yoga) was an 8-week program administered to children attending a special education center by a yoga instructor occupational therapist. Outcomes included Pediatric Balance Scale, Bruininks-Oseretsky Motor Proficiency Test-Short Form, and Microgate Witty SEM System assessed at baseline and at the end of 8th week.
The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to examine fruit and vegetable consumption in preschoolers following a nutrition education curriculum. The main questions it aims to answer is: 1. Is this intervention consisting of nutrition education and taste-test activities able to improve fruit and vegetable consumption in preschoolers during their usual lunch meal? 2. Is the improvement of fruit and vegetable consumption sustained for at least 6 weeks after completion of the intervention? Participants in the intervention classroom will partake in 3 nutrition education sessions per week during the 6-week-long curriculum. Researchers will compare this to changes in fruit and vegetable intake of the children in the control classroom, who will undergo identical measurements, but will not participate in the curriculum.
Caudal block (CB) has been the method used for years to achieve adequate postoperative analgesia in pediatric patients, which is one of the main responsibilities of an anesthetist. CB, which has been proven to provide effective analgesia for many different indications, is the most commonly performed neuraxial block technique for postoperative pain control in urogenital surgeries. However, in the following years, truncal nerve blocks are recommended for postoperative analgesia by the literature both for more effective analgesia and for preventing complications of CB that may prevent early mobilization and prolong hospital discharge
During induction of general anaesthesia physiological breathing stops and needs to be artificially established with facemask ventilation, and finally tracheal intubation or placement of a supraglottic airway. During the airway management, when lungs are not or only poorly ventilated, there is a risk for atelectasis. These atelectasis can contribute to respiratory adverse events (e.g. pulmonary infection or respiratory insufficiency) during or after general anaesthesia. High-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) is the administration of heated, humidified and blended air/oxygen mixture via a nasal cannula at rates ≥ 2 L/kg/min. HFNO used during airway management (i.e. intubation) can extend the tolerance for apnea, the time from end of physiological breathing until artificial ventilation is established. The main objective of this study is thus to investigate the variations of poorly ventilated lung units (i.e., silent spaces) as a surrogate for functional residual capacity measured by electrical impedance tomography to dynamically assess atelectasis formation and regression under apnoeic oxygenation with different flow rates.
Background and Aim: Pulmonary aspiration of gastric content is a serious perioperative complication. What is known about the pediatric patient's fasting time is usually based on parental history alone, but in some situation there may be doubts about an empty stomach in young children. Ultrasound examination of the gastric antrum is increasingly used and is emerging as a valuable perioperative noninvasive tool for the indirect assessment of gastric volumes in children. The objective of this prospective study was to assess the relationship between the cross-sectional area (CSA) of the antrum measured by gastric ultrasound and gastric volumes suctioned endoscopically, also to determine the best cut-off value of CSA for empty antrum in the pediatric population less than 24 months of age.
In this study the investigators will evaluate the long-term renal function in children treated with continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) due to acute kidney injury (AKI) and multiple organ failure (MOF) in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). These children are not always referred for nephrology follow up after their ICU stay and it is unclear to what extent the patients suffer from chronic renal disease. The primary aim is to establish the frequency of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children treated with CRRT due to AKI. Secondary outcomes will include mortality, frequency of end stage-renal disease (ESRD) and need for hemodialysis and/or renal transplantation.
Little is known about cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction occuring in children treated by anticancer drugs for malignancies. Here the investigators use VigiBase (http://www.vigiaccess.org/), the World Health Organization (WHO) database of individual safety case reports, to identify and describe cases of cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction associated with anticancer drugs.
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the safety and performance of the MiniMed™ 780G system in pediatric subjects (2-6 years old) with type 1 diabetes in a home setting. The objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and performance of the MiniMed™ 780G system in Auto Mode firstly in comparison to the MiniMed™ 780G system in Manual Mode with Suspend before low activated (currently available standard therapy) and secondly in comparison to the new MiniMed™ 780G BLE 2.0 system with DS5 sensor in Auto Mode among pediatric population (2-6 years old).
Around 3500 children including 1,000 babies a year in the UK require heart surgery. Open-heart repairs involve the heart being stopped, while blood is pumped around the body using a cardiopulmonary bypass machine. Following complex operations, the patient may temporarily develop poor heart function, leading to reduced organ blood supply. Low heart output leads to post-operative complications or even death. The current methods to assess cardiac output and to see if vital organs, especially the brain, are receiving enough blood flow, are indirect and can be inaccurate. If we find a better way to detect and then avert or ameliorate periods of poor cardiac output and / or reduced brain perfusion, then this would be helpful for clinicians and could lead to better outcomes for children. We believe that optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), a non-invasive way to image the blood vessels in the retina at the back of the eye, could help us to assess cardiac output and brain perfusion. The OCTA machine was approved for use in humans in 2019 and given a CE Marking, but it has previously been used mainly in the management of eye diseases. There is a small amount of experience with its use in critically ill adults. We plan a pilot study to see if it is possible to use the OCTA machine at key time points, before, during and after children's heart operations, in 30 patients. We will study the images taken with OCTA machine to see if they are of good quality and we will analyze the images to see whether or not the expected changes in cardiac output and brain perfusion that occur with heart surgery can be detected as changes in blood flow in the back of the eye. Depending on the success of this pilot, we will plan further studies.