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Guidelines
AAP urges school preparedness for medical emergencies
June 28, 2022
The AAP recently updated their recommendations urging schools to be prepared for emergency medical situations including seizures, diabetes, allergies/anaphylaxis, mental health, substance use, or asthma.
This week from the AAP: updated infant sleep recommendations
June 21, 2022
This week, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated their safe sleep recommendations and released the 2022 bright futures/AAP periodicity schedule for preventive pediatric health care. In part 1, we focus on the updates in sleep recommendations.
Keeping children calm and comfortable at pediatric-exclusive hospitals
June 20, 2022
In a video for Contemporary Pediatrics®, Tina Q. Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS, discusses how the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Illinois, caters to their pediatric patients in an effort to keep them de-stressed and comfortable.
Once-weekly somapacitan injection shows efficacy in children with GHD
June 14, 2022
Data from a recent study of once weekly somapacitan injection shows positive results for prepubertal children with growth hormone deficiency (GHD).
Assessing the prevalence of medication errors in pediatric care
June 08, 2022
Pediatric patients taking 4 or more medications were more likely to experience medication errors.
AAP announces recommendation of using non-stigmatizing terminology for substance use policy
May 24, 2022
Rachel H. Alinsky, MD, MPH, FAAP, spoke with Contemporary Pediatrics® about her newly released AAP policy statement advocating for the use of medically accurate, person-first terminology when discussing substance use.
Eliminating race-based medicine in pediatrics and beyond
May 02, 2022
Race in medical diagnosis and treatment has a centuries-old history of mistreatment, which still peeks through in today’s medical environment. Now, the American Academy of Pediatrics aims to eliminate the use of race-based medicine with its new policy statement.
Why providing care informed by trauma is important
October 20, 2021
Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics help guide families on how to manage and move on from trauma.
New report guides the treatment of infants with asymptomatic fevers
September 02, 2021
New guidelines can aid clinicians in diagnosing infants who have fever, but no other symptoms.
New Jersey mandating mask wearing in public schools this fall
August 06, 2021
New Jersey becomes 1 of the first states to mandate wearing masks for public schools this fall.