A5049786040- Reproductive tract infections research
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Facial Trauma and Fracture Management
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Muscle and Compartmental Disorders
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Restraint-Related Deaths
- Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Eosinophilic Disorders and Syndromes
- Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
- Inflammatory Myopathies and Dermatomyositis
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Sports Performance and Training
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Urinary and Genital Oncology Studies
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management
- Comics and Graphic Narratives
- Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
University of Minnesota
2018-2024
University of Minnesota Children's Hospital
2016-2022
Fairview Health Services
2022
National Institutes of Health
2019
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
2013-2016
Ohio Department of Health
2016
Because adolescents rely heavily on emergency services for health care, a pediatric department (PED) visit may be their only opportunity sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening. The primary objectives of this study were to determine the proportion Neisseria gonorrheae (GC) and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infections in asymptomatic PED patient-perceived barriers STI screening.A convenience sample patients aged 14 21 years presenting an urban with nongenitourinary complaints was offered...
More than 19 million adolescents seek care in the emergency department (ED) annually. We aimed to describe knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related confidential adolescent among pediatric ED physicians. conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire of US physician members Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee survey listserv. The 24-item assessed familiarity with confidentiality laws, attitudes toward providing care, frequency discussing behavioral health topics...
Objective The purpose of this study is to describe pediatric ocular injuries presenting a level-III trauma center and emergency department. Methods We performed retrospective identified children from January 1, 2011, 2016. Charts were reviewed for any subject, age newborn younger than 18 years, based on International Classification Diseases , ninth tenth revision, codes injury. Data abstraction included age, sex, means arrival, eye involved, mechanism injury, type imaging studies obtained,...
Oral foreign bodies and hair-thread tourniquets are fairly common findings. The combination of the two, however, is rarer. In this article, we present a case involving tourniquet circumvallate papillae (more commonly known as "taste bud"). We discuss methods for removal well techniques examining children oral bodies.
Tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA) in non-sexually active female adolescents is a rare presentation to the pediatric emergency department. In following case, bilateral TOA secondary Streptococcus constellatus was diagnosed 13-year-old virginal female. The patient seen 4 months before for interventional radiology-guided drainage and antibiotic treatment an intra-abdominal due suspected appendiceal rupture. Exploratory laparotomy on most recent demonstrated appendix with inflammation serositis...
][3] Treatment of adolescent patients testing positive for an STI once discharged from the pediatric emergency department is a concern, particularly among those who are asymptomatic and may not understand importance treatment.Studies have shown that health care professionals able to contact with their test results; however, it unclear in literature whether Chlamydia trachomatis (CT)-positive obtain prescriptions pharmacies or Neisseria gonorrhea (GC)-positive return oral intramuscular...
Adolescents with psychiatric conditions more commonly engage in high-risk sexual behaviors and are at increased risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) when presenting to pediatric emergency departments (PEDs) may be an important population which target screening efforts. This study aimed determine frequency physician-documented history STI adolescents a PED mental health-related complaints.Retrospective patients aged 14 18 years February 2015 September 2016. Electronic records were...
Physician mothers are at risk for early cessation of breastfeeding, in part because challenges associated with returning to work. Given the inherent unpredictability emergency medicine practice, we hypothesized that pediatric (PEM) physicians would face unique continuing breastfeeding while working their field. The aims this study were determine 6-month rates PEM physicians, gain insight into experiences expressing breast milk departments, and factors support or discourage successful...