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Opinion | “The downsides of masking young students are real”.

3 Sep, 2021 | 10:24h | UTC

The Downsides of Masking Young Students Are Real – The Atlantic

 

Commentary with a rebuttal on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 

AAP Guideline: Long-term follow-up care for childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors.

3 Sep, 2021 | 10:17h | UTC

Long-term Follow-up Care for Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivors – Pediatrics

News release: American Academy of Pediatrics Offers Guidance for Caring and Treatment of Long-Term Cancer Survivors – American Academy of Pediatrics

 

Study casts doubt on WHO guidance on antibiotics for neonatal sepsis.

3 Sep, 2021 | 09:57h | UTC

Study casts doubt on WHO guidance on antibiotics for neonatal sepsis – CIDRAP

Original study: Effects of antibiotic resistance, drug target attainment, bacterial pathogenicity and virulence, and antibiotic access and affordability on outcomes in neonatal sepsis: an international microbiology and drug evaluation prospective substudy (BARNARDS) – The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Invited commentary: Antibiotics for neonatal sepsis in low-income and middle-income countries—where to go from here? (free registration required)

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

The Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Management of the Critically Ill Neonate—A Narrative Review and Practical Guide.

3 Sep, 2021 | 10:00h | UTC

The Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Management of the Critically Ill Neonate—A Narrative Review and Practical Guide – Children

 

Pro-Con Debate: 1- vs 2-Hour Fast for Clear Liquids Before Anesthesia in Children.

3 Sep, 2021 | 09:55h | UTC

Pro-Con Debate: 1- vs 2-Hour Fast for Clear Liquids Before Anesthesia in Children – Anesthesia & Analgesia

Related: ESPEN practical guideline: Clinical nutrition in surgery – “Preoperative fasting from midnight is unnecessary in most patients. Patients undergoing surgery, who are considered to have no specific risk of aspiration, shall drink clear fluids until 2 h before anesthesia. Solids shall be allowed until 6 h before anesthesia.”

 

Long COVID: the physical and mental health of children and non-hospitalized young people after SARS-CoV-2 infection – one in seven children may still have symptoms 15 weeks after infection.

2 Sep, 2021 | 10:10h | UTC

Long COVID – the physical and mental health of children and non-hospitalised young people 3 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection; a national matched cohort study (The CLoCk) Study.

Commentaries:

Long Covid in children ‘nowhere near scale feared’ – BBC

Long covid: One in seven children may still have symptoms 15 weeks after infection, data show – The BMJ

Related:

Do kids get long COVID? And how often? A pediatrician looks at the data – Children also get Long Covid, but much less often than adults.

Illness duration and symptom profile in symptomatic school-aged children tested for SARS-CoV-2 – “Only 25 (1.8%) of 1379 children experienced symptoms for at least 56 days.”

Long-term Symptoms After SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children and Adolescents – “This study found a low prevalence of symptoms compatible with long COVID in a randomly selected cohort of children assessed 6 months after serologic testing”.

Study shows low incidence of post-acute COVID-19 symptoms (“Long Covid”) in children after mild disease

Cohort study: Risk factors for long covid in previously hospitalized children.

M-A: More than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19.

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 

Treatment of urinary tract infections in infants <2 Months: A Living Systematic Review - short and long duration of parenteral antibiotics were associated with a similar risk of UTI recurrence.

2 Sep, 2021 | 08:19h | UTC

Treatment of UTIs in Infants <2 Months: A Living Systematic Review – Hospital Pediatrics

 

Global, regional, and national estimates and trends in stillbirths from 2000 to 2019: a systematic assessment.

1 Sep, 2021 | 08:56h | UTC

Global, regional, and national estimates and trends in stillbirths from 2000 to 2019: a systematic assessment – The Lancet

 

RCT: Severe malaria among young African children dramatically reduced through seasonal vaccination and preventative drug combination.

1 Sep, 2021 | 09:02h | UTC

News release: Severe malaria among young African children dramatically reduced through seasonal vaccination and preventative drug combination – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Original article: Seasonal Malaria Vaccination with or without Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention – New England Journal of Medicine

Commentary: Malaria trial shows ‘striking’ 70% reduction in severe illness in children – The Guardian

Related: Malaria vaccine becomes first to achieve WHO-specified 75% efficacy goal

 

Study shows young children gained weight during the pandemic.

31 Aug, 2021 | 08:59h | UTC

News release: Young children gained weight during the pandemic – Kaiser Permanente

Original study: Changes in Body Mass Index Among Children and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic – JAMA

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Do kids get long COVID? And how often? A pediatrician looks at the data – Children also get Long Covid, but much less often than adults.

31 Aug, 2021 | 08:57h | UTC

Do kids get long COVID? And how often? A paediatrician looks at the data – The Conversation

Related:

Illness duration and symptom profile in symptomatic school-aged children tested for SARS-CoV-2 – “Only 25 (1.8%) of 1379 children experienced symptoms for at least 56 days.”

Long-term Symptoms After SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children and Adolescents – “This study found a low prevalence of symptoms compatible with long COVID in a randomly selected cohort of children assessed 6 months after serologic testing”.

Study shows low incidence of post-acute COVID-19 symptoms (“Long Covid”) in children after mild disease

Cohort study: Risk factors for long covid in previously hospitalized children.

M-A: More than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19.

 

Many predicted some kind of ‘Covid slide’ in learning. Test results show how bad it is.

29 Aug, 2021 | 18:55h | UTC

Many predicted some kind of ‘Covid slide’ in learning. Test results show how bad it is – CNN

Report: Learning during COVID-19: Reading and math achievement in the 2020-21 school year – NWEA

Related:

[Preprint] Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early child cognitive development: initial findings in a longitudinal observational study of child health.

 

Unvaccinated, unmasked teacher infected more than half of students in class with Covid-19, CDC reports.

29 Aug, 2021 | 18:52h | UTC

Unvaccinated, unmasked teacher infected more than half of students in class with Covid-19, CDC reports – CNN

Original study: Outbreak Associated with SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant in an Elementary School — Marin County, California, May–June 2021 – CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

 

The Lancet Series: Active ingredients for addressing youth anxiety and depression.

27 Aug, 2021 | 09:05h | UTC

Homepage: Active ingredients for addressing youth anxiety and depression – The Lancet Psychiatry (free registration required for all articles)

The knowns and unknowns of SSRI treatment in young people with depression and anxiety: efficacy, predictors, and mechanisms of action

See commentary: The benefits and harms of antidepressants for youth depression and anxiety #ActiveIngredientsMH – The Mental Elf

Circadian rhythm sleep–wake disturbances and depression in young people: implications for prevention and early intervention

Harnessing emotional mental imagery to reduce anxiety and depression in young people: an integrative review of progress and promise

Identifying and integrating active ingredients for mental health

 

Commentary on Twitter

https://twitter.com/TheLancetPsych/status/1428692894165225473

 

Commentary/Podcast: are the AAP guidelines for the evaluation and management of the well-appearing febrile infant the answer to a never ending story?

27 Aug, 2021 | 08:40h | UTC

SGEM#341: are the AAP guidelines for the evaluation and management of the well-appearing febrile infant the answer to a never ending story? – The Skeptics Guide To EM

Original guideline and commentary: Commentary on the Latest AAP Guidelines for the Febrile Neonate.

 

Systematic review: The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on child and adolescent mental health.

25 Aug, 2021 | 08:58h | UTC

The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on child and adolescent mental health: systematic review – European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Related: M-A: Child and youth mental health problems have doubled during COVID-19. (several articles on the subject)

 

Preventing stillbirth: What’s the latest evidence?

25 Aug, 2021 | 08:38h | UTC

Preventing stillbirth: What’s the latest evidence? – Evidently Cochrane

Special collection: Stillbirth prevention and respectful bereavement care – Cochrane Library

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 

Thirty-Day Outcomes of Children and Adolescents With COVID-19: An International Experience – “Despite negligible fatality, complications including hospitalization, hypoxemia, and pneumonia were more frequent in children and adolescents with COVID-19 than with influenza”.

24 Aug, 2021 | 09:51h | UTC

Thirty-Day Outcomes of Children and Adolescents With COVID-19: An International Experience – Pediatrics

Related:

Kawasaki Disease and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: An Overview and Comparison.

Illness duration and symptom profile in symptomatic school-aged children tested for SARS-CoV-2 – “Only 25 (1.8%) of 1379 children experienced symptoms for at least 56 days.”

AAP Guidance: Post-COVID-19 conditions in children and adolescents.

Cohort study: Risk factors for long covid in previously hospitalized children.

Cohort study: Neurological manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalized children and adolescents in the UK – “around 1 in 20 of children hospitalized with COVID-19 develop brain or nerve complications linked to the viral infection”.

Long-term Symptoms After SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children and Adolescents – “This study found a low prevalence of symptoms compatible with long COVID in a randomly selected cohort of children assessed 6 months after serologic testing”.

Deaths from COVID ‘incredibly rare’ among children.

[Preprint] Study confirms children’s extremely low risk of death from Covid-19 – “99·995% of children and young people with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test survived”.

 

Perspective | How should schools and daycare treat colds in the covid age? It’s complicated. – “Will every sniffle and cough be treated as potential Covid until proven otherwise?”.

24 Aug, 2021 | 09:53h | UTC

How Should Schools And Daycare Treat Colds In The Covid Age? It’s Complicated. – Romper

 

Study commentary: How risky for developing psychosis are ‘At Risk Mental States’ in youths?

24 Aug, 2021 | 08:45h | UTC

How risky for developing psychosis are ‘At Risk Mental States’ in youths? – The Mental Elf

Original study: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Psychosis Risk in Children and Adolescents With an At-Risk Mental State – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Review: Managing diabetic ketoacidosis in children.

24 Aug, 2021 | 08:46h | UTC

Managing Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Children – Annals of Emergency Medicine

 

[Preprint] SARS-CoV-2 aerosol transmission in schools: theoretical effectiveness of different interventions – “Combined interventions (i.e., natural ventilation, masks, and HEPA filtration) were the most effective (≥ 30-fold decrease)”.

22 Aug, 2021 | 23:50h | UTC

SARS-CoV-2 aerosol transmission in schools: the effectiveness of different interventions – medRxiv

Related: The right way to protect our children and return to in-person learning – CNN

 

Commentaries on Twitter

 

NICE Guideline: Antenatal care.

19 Aug, 2021 | 08:53h | UTC

Antenatal care – National Institutes for Health and Care Excellence

 

Nine in ten children with ADHD may experience symptoms into young adulthood.

19 Aug, 2021 | 08:45h | UTC

Nine in Ten Children With ADHD May Experience Symptoms Into Young Adulthood – Psychiatric News Alert

Original study: Variable Patterns of Remission From ADHD in the Multimodal Treatment Study of ADHD – The American Journal of Psychiatry

 

Doubts raised about cooling treatment for oxygen-deprived newborns.

19 Aug, 2021 | 08:38h | UTC

Doubts raised about cooling treatment for oxygen-deprived newborns – Nature

Original study: RCT: Therapeutic hypothermia may cause harm in moderate or severe neonatal encephalopathy in low-income and middle-income countries.

 

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