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CHOP Evaluates Strategies in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) to Enhance Communication and Ensure Equitable Participation in Research
In a new retrospective cohort study, researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) discuss disparities in race and ethnicity when enrolling families to participate in research conducted in its Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
Coping with a Dual Diagnosis
Parents are usually blindsided when they find out that their child has congenital hyperinsulinism (HI), a rare genetic disorder that depresses blood sugar to dangerously low levels.
New Cell Models Help Researchers Study Disease Development and Growth Issues in Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
New Cell Models Help Researchers Study Disease Development and Growth Issues in Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
CHOP Researchers Identify Clinical Features of MIS-C in Children
The case study involving six patients reveals key symptoms of this syndrome include fever, diarrhea, and shock.
Children’s Doctor News and Updates: Spring 2020
Latest news including a new peanut allergy treatment, risk factors linked to poor sleep, updated sepsis guidelines and more.
CHOP Doctor Helps Pen Guidelines on Treating Pediatric Sepsis
The new guidelines address how to treat children with complex medical condition.
Tick. Tick. Tick. Defusing the Sepsis Timebomb
Efforts across CHOP search for faster, more accurate ways to diagnose deadly infection.
Diagnosing Sepsis with Machine and the Human Touch
Scientific American highlights CHOP research as an example of how modern medicine combined with the human touch can help detect disease.
CHOP Nurse Receives Award for Work in Recognizing Sepsis
Mary Kat Abbadessa, a clinical nurse specialist fellow, helped create a two-tiered system that alerts nurses to rapid heart rate, low blood pressure.
Sepsis Early Alert System
CHOP’s multidisciplinary early alert system for sepsis is designed to flag at-risk children within minutes of arrival in the emergency room.