The love of parents, the dedication of his doctors, and maybe a visit from his dog helped bring Trevor Hensley back from the brink of death.

Thus, this is a cautionary tale for physicians and physician trainees. Give yourself the same consideration you give your patients. Keep up to date on your preventive care. Make the appointment for your annual well exam. Schedule your screening mammogram. Get that colonoscopy on the books. And follow up on your results.

You've probably heard about the extremely popular antibiotic known as "Bactrim," which is used to treat all kinds of ailments from acne to urinary tract infections. But two local physicians recently figured out - that for some teenagers - the common prescription can lead to devastating reactions, including death.

The love of parents, the dedication of his doctors, and maybe a visit from his dog helped bring Trevor Hensley back from the brink of death.

On this, the 73rd day of #ecmo support for Covid, this young #pedsicu patient was decannulated.

Coronavirus Disease-2019 presents risk to both patients and medical teams. Staff-intensive, complex procedures such as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) or extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (eCPR) may increase chances of exposure and spread.

The COVID-19 pandemic is amplifying historic inequities worldwide. These inequities include not only gender disparities, but also systemic racism and an overall lack of diversity and representation in all areas of professional life.

There are eight of us, all women, all physicians who take care of the sickest children in the nation in Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) in the Midwest, the East Coast, the West Coast and the South. Some of us work in community hospitals, and some of us work at nationally rated hospitals, the kind everyone knows. The PICU is the last line of defense for children, but the system is not designed to take on this magnitude of preventable illnesses. This is what haunts us: the reality that we might not be able to care for every child who needs us. We are pro-vaccine, pro-masks and pro-child.

She went on to specialize in pediatric medicine and then completed a 3 year fellowship in pediatric critical care. She is the doctor who takes care of the sickest of the sick kids…kids who are so sick that they wind up in the pediatric intensive care unit. She is probably someone you never want your kids to have a reason to meet, but if your kid is that sick, she is undoubtedly the person you want taking care of them.

Accurate resuscitation of pediatric patients with large thermal injury is critical to achieving optimal outcomes. The goal of this project was to describe the degree of variability in resuscitation guidelines among pediatric burn centers and the impact on fluid estimates.

Here we describe 14 previously healthy children and young adults exposed to TMP-SMX before the development of fulminant respiratory failure, potentially reflecting a previously unappreciated, life-threatening ADR to TMP-SMX.

Patients with suspected or confirmed MIS-C should be monitored closely for abdominal catastrophe, especially when critically ill in the intensive care unit.

Many pediatric hospitals have resources to care for severely burned patients but lack standardized care guidelines, which improve outcomes. To improve the morbidity and mortality of severely burned pediatric patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit, we created a specialized burn team. We implemented Pediatric Severe Burn Guidelines, focusing on improving fluid resuscitation accuracy and providing timely nutritional support.

We've had a lot of questions from our listeners about the differences between COVID-19 and the seasonal flu. In this episode, we answer a lot of those questions. Blue Valley's Dr. Chris Jenson is joined by Jenna Miller, MD, FAAP, from Children's Mercy to discuss how these viruses can affect us, the amount of time they can continue to affect us, and how the vaccines are produced to stop them.

Hunter Short, arrived in McPherson after being discharged from the hospital after 100 days. Short's recovery - nothing short of a medical miracle - has been a long process. What started as a simple fall from his bicycle quickly escalated to a life-threatening situation.

There’s significant and growing health disparity and inequity for children in the U.S.. As clinicians who bear witness to those widening disparities and inequities, we have a responsibility to advocate for policies that can improve the health of all children. Gun violence is the second leading cause of death in the United States and is associated with increasing critical care resource use, yet we do not have adequate funding for research about firearm safety and injury prevention. Poverty is a major social determinant of health for children and increases the utilization of pediatric critical care. Black children have an increased risk of complications and mortality following surgery, even if they were healthy prior to the procedure. Our patients under the age of 18 can’t vote—we can. As pediatric intensivists, we have a responsibility to ask candidates who are campaigning for office what they’ll do to improve the health of children. Then we must vote.

I took a typical route through medical school, residency, and sub-specialty training. I didn’t finish my pediatric critical care training until I was 32. I moved back to my home state and, within a year, began a serious relationship. Like many others my age, I had not really talked about fertility preservation at that time.

I am sharing my story because infertility planning is not discussed with women or men in medicine. Yet our careers lead us to paths where many do not start families until four years after the average age of the general population (3). I would encourage training programs, including medical schools, residencies, and fellowships, to incorporate fertility preservation information in their available resources. Insurance packages should be transparent about their coverage of fertility preservation. This is not only true for our trainees, but also for our faculty.

Zei Uwadia made national headlines in 2018 when she walked the halls of Children's Mercy Kansas City while on life support. All told, she spent more than six months connected to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine while battling a mysterious lung ailment. That work focuses on trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, more commonly known as Bactrim

Pediatric oncology patients with sepsis are at higher risk of morbidity and mortality compared with pediatric patients without malignancy.