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ICAAP
Secure your spot for the ICAAP Annual Conference
on Friday, March 3 at the Hyatt Regency in Lisle. This day-long educational
event features two keynote lectures, breakout sessions on hot topics in
pediatrics, a poster session, and networking with pediatricians and other
pediatric health care providers from around the state. View the full agenda and register today!
SIU School of Medicine Community Service
The
Community Health Response in the Southern Illinois Regional Meeting will be held on Tuesday,
February 28 from 9:30am-12:30pm at John A. Logan College Conference Center
in Cartervillle. Topics include progress reports from local and regional
coalitions, IDPH data on opioid overdoses and deaths, and success stories
from organizations working to fight the opioid problem. RSVP by February 22
to Jennifer Cutrell at jcutrell@siumed.edu.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The
CDC published the 2017 recommendations for children
ages 0-18 in MMWR. The new schedule and catch-up schedule are available online. These
publications are established at the beginning of each year but there can be
modifications throughout the year so please stay updated on any changes to
ensure all children are up-to-date on vaccine recommendations.
Neighborhood Parents Network
The
Neighborhood Parents Network's (NPN) 6th annual free fair, is dedicated to
providing Chicago families with school options, service providers,
extracurricular activities and other resources that focus on helping
children with developmental differences live up to their full potential.
Categories of needs include, but are not limited to, developmental delays
(i.e., speech, motor skills), sensory processing disorder, autism,
ADD/ADHD, PDD-NOS, mixed receptive-expressive language disorder, Down
syndrome and physical disabilities. Free workshops will focus on giving
parents the tools to manage and advocate for their child’s care. To learn
more about this please visit the Resource Fair webpage.
ICAAP
William
Gordon, DMin, MDiv, is a faculty member in the Department of
Interprofessional Healthcare. He studies at Rosalind Franklin University of
Medicine and Science in North Chicago, IL. Dr. Gordon’s expertise is in
teams (structure and functioning), communication, and collaboration. He is
a champion of relation justice issues in both his personal and professional
life. In the noon keynote presentation, Dr. Gordon will address the impact
of stress in the form of caregivers’ fatigue, secondary trauma stress,
vicarious trauma, mixed/shared traumas, and allopathic overload. His
presentation, titled “Caring Too Hard: Refueling When You are Spent,” will
review the signs that indicate when we must pull inward and discuss
possibilities for self-care that allow us to effectively return to our
passions and purpose.
Registration is now open for the 3rd Annual
Autism, Behavior, and Complex Medical Needs—Downstate (ABC-D) Conference,
to be held on Friday, April 28, at the Regency Conference Center in
O'Fallon, IL. This year’s theme is “Zip Code vs. Genetic Code: The Social
Determinants of Caring for Children and Families with Special Needs.” To
learn more about the other sessions available, continuing education
credits, and other general conference information, visit the ABC website or view the conference brochure.
The State Journal-Register
Springfield's
children's hospital, part of HSHS St. John's Hospital, is facing increased
competition for patients from a similar but larger hospital in Peoria.
That's how officials from St. John's see it. "I think they're making
an aggressive approach into our market," Dr. Douglas Carlson, medical
director of HSHS St. John's Children's Hospital, said of the recently
launched print and billboard advertising campaign by the Children's
Hospital of Illinois. But officials from Peoria's 629-bed OSF Saint Francis
Medical Center, which includes the 136-bed Children's Hospital, said they
would like to collaborate with 80-bed St. John's Children's Hospital — not
compete with it.
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NBC News
It
may be possible to detect autism in babies before their first birthdays, a
much earlier diagnosis than ever before, a small new study finds. Using
magnetic-resonance imaging scans, researchers at the University of North
Carolina were able to predict — with an 80 percent accuracy rate — which
babies who had an older sibling with autism would be later diagnosed with
the disorder. READ
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UC San Diego Health
Methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial scourge. As its name suggests,
MRSA is resistant to most common antibiotics and thus difficult to treat,
particularly in children where it commonly causes complicated skin and skin
structure infections. In a randomized, controlled clinical trial — the
first of its kind — a multi-institution research team reports that
daptomycin, part of a new class of antibiotics currently approved only for
use in adults, is effective and well-tolerated in children. The findings
are published in the March 2017 issue of Pediatrics. READ
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The New York Times
The
3-year-old girl was having a very bad day — a bad week, really. She'd been
angry and irritable, screaming and kicking at her mother over nothing. Her
mother was embarrassed by this unusual behavior, because her husband's
sister, Amber Bard, was visiting. Bard, a third-year medical student at
Michigan State, was staying in the guest room while working with a local
medical practice in Grand Rapids so that she could spend a little time with
her niece. READ
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ScienceDaily
Babies
born at just 22 to 24 weeks of pregnancy continue to have sobering outlooks
— only about 1 in 3 survive. But according to a new study, those rates are
showing small but measurable improvement. Compared to extremely preterm
babies born a decade earlier, the study found a larger percentage are
developing into toddlers without signs of moderate or severe cognitive and
motor delay. READ
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Medical News Today
Acute
appendicitis is one of the most common reasons for performing emergency
surgery in children. However, surgery can be costly and very unsettling for
young patients and their families. Now, a fresh review of published
evidence finds treatment with antibiotics could be an effective and safe
alternative. However, the researchers say larger, randomized trials need to
confirm this finding before clinical recommendations can be made. READ
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CNN
People
diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have smaller brain
volume than those without the disorder, according to a study published
recently in the medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry. The
differences in brain volume were identified by researchers who reviewed
brain scans comparing those without ADHD to those with the disorder. READ
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Medical Xpress
Newborns
in neonatal intensive care units require lots of love. So when doctors put
babies — and their families — into private hospital rooms, it may seem
expensive. But when in private rooms, babies heal faster, saving hospitals
the cost of longer treatment. With those savings, the construction costs of
private rooms rather than old-style open bay intensive care units are
justified, according to a new Cornell study published Jan. 25 in the Journal
of Intensive Care Medicine. The study illustrated the financial
implications — from a hospital's perspective — of current best practices in
neonatal intensive care unit design. READ
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