A5103196000- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
- Legal Education and Practice Innovations
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Poisoning and overdose treatments
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
- Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- International Labor and Employment Law
- Infrared Thermography in Medicine
- Immune cells in cancer
- Legal Issues in Education
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Foreign Body Medical Cases
- Restraint-Related Deaths
- Thermal Regulation in Medicine
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- Ethics in medical practice
- Respiratory viral infections research
Boston Medical Center
2022-2024
Boston University
2024
Children's National
2022-2024
Emory University
2023
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2021
George Washington University
2012
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES High-powered magnets were effectively removed from the US market by Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in 2012 but returned 2016 after federal court decisions. The United States Court of Appeals for 10th Circuit cited imprecise data among other reasons as justification overturning CPSC protections. Since then, incidence high-powered magnet exposure has increased markedly, outcome are limited. In this study, we aim to describe epidemiology and outcomes...
The Americans with Disabilities Act was pushed through Congress far less attention from the media than has accompanied other major civil rights bills. This part of a deliberate and unconventional strategy by disability lobbyists who believed that portrayals were so cliched journalists would impede, not further, public's understanding issues. Despite success strategy, there is price to pay for having been ‘stealth’ movement: Now law in place, disabled people face backlash neither understand...
Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is released by neutrophils in inflamed tissues. MPO oxidizes chloride, bromide, and thiocyanate to produce hypochlorous acid (HOCl), hypobromous (HOBr), hypothiocyanous (HOSCN), respectively. These oxidants are toxic pathogens, but may also react with host cells elicit biological activity potential toxicity. In cystic fibrosis (CF) related diseases, increased neutrophil inflammation leads airway epithelial cell (AEC) exposure its oxidants. this study, we investigated...
Child maltreatment remains a concerning source of morbidity and mortality in the United States, where more than 600,000 children are victims abuse each year, with well-described, long-term consequences for physical mental health. However, US child welfare system is characterized by systemic racism inequity. Black Native American likely to be evaluated reported suspected despite evidence that race does not independently change their risk being abused. Once protective services (CPS), these...
BACKGROUND Leaving the hospital against medical advice (AMA) reflects a breakdown in family-clinician relationship and creates ethical dilemmas inpatient pediatric care. There are no national data on frequency or characteristics of leaving AMA from US children’s hospitals. METHODS We performed retrospective cohort study discharges for children under 18 years old January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2022 43 hospitals Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) database. The primary outcome was AMA....
The question of optimal disposition for children with complex medical and social circumstances has long challenged the well-intentioned clinician. coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic created unique difficulties patients, families, health care providers, in addition to highlighting long-standing racial socioeconomic inequities care. In pediatric hospitals, necessary public measures such as visitor restrictions shifted many shared decision-making processes discharge planning from complicated...
Patel H, Gouin S, Platt R. J Pediatr. 2003;142:509–514To determine whether oral albuterol therapy is effective in reducing symptoms of mild/moderate acute viral bronchiolitis.A total 129 previously healthy infants (≤12 months age) discharged directly home from the emergency department (ED), with a clinical diagnosis bronchiolitis, were studied.At discharge ED, patients randomly assigned to receive either (0.1 mg/kg per dose) or placebo treatment. Infants treated 3 times daily for maximum 7...
SUMMARY The author weaves both history and human drama in his illustration of our nation's most significant civil rights legislation since the sixties. This article tangibly portrays how a law affects life being-and its meaning for all Americans.