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Acute Migraine treatment in Children

November 19, 2019 By carolyn

Practice guideline update summary: Acute treatment of migraine in children and adolescents
Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and ImplementationSubcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Headache Society

Maryam Oskoui, MD, MSc, Tamara Pringsheim, MD, Yolanda Holler-Managan, MD, Sonja Potrebic, MD, PhD,Lori Billinghurst, MD, MSc, David Gloss, MD, MPH&TM, Andrew D. Hershey, MD, PhD, Nicole Licking, DO,Michael Sowell, MD, M. Cristina Victorio, MD, Elaine M. Gersz, Emily Leininger, Heather Zanitsch,Marcy Yonker, MD, and Kenneth Mack, MD, PhD

Read full abstract here.

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5 Things to know about AFM

Medscape has released the new CDC Expert Commentary  “5 things to know about AFM.” Title: 5 Things to Know About Acute Flaccid Myelitis Expert/Faculty: Janell A. Routh, MD, MHS Posting Date: October 15, 2019 Link: medscape.com/viewarticle/919704?src=par_cdc_stm_mscpedt&faf=1 Also this month, a paper on AFM was published in Nature Medicine, with main authors from UCSF with CDC as collaborators. Date: 10/21/19 Type: Journal Article Title: Pan-viral Serology Implicates Enteroviruses … [Continue Reading]

CDC Releases “Acute Flaccid Myelitis in the United States: 2015–2017” in Pediatrics

CDC recently released an article in Pediatrics about acute flaccid myelitis activity in the United States from 2015 to 2017. Key Findings From 2015 to 2017, 193 patients aged 21 and younger in 41 states were confirmed to have AFM. Most cases (116) occurred between August and November, with the largest number of cases (143) occurring in 2016. The median age of cases was 6 years. Strong evidence pointed to viruses, including enteroviruses, as having a role in these AFM cases. … [Continue Reading]

SPUC Partners with the CDC through the AMR Challenge

The Society for Pediatric Urgent Care has partnered with the CDC through the AMR Challenge to commit to decreasing inappropriate antibiotic use in pediatric urgent care organizations by 20% by December 2019. SPUC will work with CDC and the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center (ARAC) to continue an ongoing project that examines and improves the use of antibiotics in pediatric urgent care by implementing quality improvement initiatives. The project will collect, analyze, and feedback data … [Continue Reading]

A Response to “Pediatric Referrals to an Emergency Department From Urgent Care Centers”

SPUC members Tiffany Addington, Jennifer Johnson, Amanda Montalbano and Emily Montgomery wrote a response to an article in Pediatric Emergency Care The article was called “Pediatric Referrals to an Emergency Department From Urgent Care Centers.”  Read the published response letter here. … [Continue Reading]

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