Top 5 clinical guidelines you may have missed
A roundup of new and updated guidelines that you may have missed.
#5 Discharging newborns from the hospital
The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a policy statement updating guidelines for releasing healthy term newborns from the hospital. The new guidelines aim to ensure that both baby and mother are ready to go home based on their unique situation.
#4 Evaluating throat nodules
For the first time, the American Thyroid Association has issued guidelines specifically for evaluating and managing benign thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer in children and adolescents aged 18 years and younger.
#3 Head lice treatment
As the summer months approach and the likelihood of transmission of head lice at summer sporting events and campouts looms, the American Academy of Pediatrics has updated its clinical guidance report on head lice management.
#2 Bronchiolitis
Updated clinical practice guidelines by the American Academy of Pediatrics provide new recommendations that emphasize supportive care and select use of prophylactic palivizumab.
#1 Acute otitis media
New guidelines have revised diagnostic criteria for acute otitis media. Pediatricians should adopt these guidelines into practice and, as a result of new findings, should reconsider the antibiotics chosen as treatment in children vaccinated with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
AAP: How physicians can recognize and support victims of child exploitation
December 23rd 2022The American Academy of Pediatrics has updated their report, “Exploitation, Labor and Sex Trafficking of Children and Adolescents: Health Care Needs of Patients,” to provide updated guidance on how physicians can recognize and help children and adolescents subjected to trafficking or exploitation.
