Suzanne Beno, Kristian Goulet, Pamela Fuselli, Emilie Beaulieu
{"title":"Off-road vehicle use by children and adolescents: Strategies to prevent injury.","authors":"Suzanne Beno, Kristian Goulet, Pamela Fuselli, Emilie Beaulieu","doi":"10.1093/pch/pxaf027","DOIUrl":"10.1093/pch/pxaf027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Off-road vehicles (ORVs) are motorized vehicles engineered specifically for navigating rough terrain. They are often seen in rural, remote, and agricultural settings, but are widely used in Canada, primarily for recreation, and are responsible for a disproportionate number of severe injuries and deaths in the paediatric population. ORVs are becoming heavier and faster, and injuries associated with their use by children and adolescents are similar in severity to those sustained in motor vehicle crashes. However, while the automotive industry is bound by safety legislation, strict enforcement, and engineering and road strategies to prevent harm, there is no comparable regulatory framework for ORVs, leaving a gap in safety advancements. Based on a comprehensive literature search undertaken in February 2024, this statement provides an overview of the effects of ORV use by children and adolescents, factors influencing ORV crashes and resultant injuries, and recommendations for health care providers and governments to reduce preventable harms associated with ORVs in the paediatric population.</p>","PeriodicalId":19730,"journal":{"name":"Paediatrics & child health","volume":"30 8","pages":"769-775"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12718027/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145805059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kevin Chan, Catherine A Farrell, Laurel Chauvin-Kimoff
{"title":"Management of the paediatric patient with acute head trauma.","authors":"Kevin Chan, Catherine A Farrell, Laurel Chauvin-Kimoff","doi":"10.1093/pch/pxaf032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pch/pxaf032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acute head trauma (AHT) leading to traumatic brain injury is an important cause of paediatric morbidity and mortality. Injury severity depends on the mechanism of trauma and age of the child. The vast majority of childhood AHT cases are mild, require no therapy, and leave no long-term sequelae. However, it is important to identify individuals at risk for significant injury and those who require specific evaluation and intervention. This statement replaces a 2013 document from the Canadian Paediatric Society on this topic. It describes issues related to AHT in infants, children, and youth, including clinical manifestations, initial management priorities, guidelines for observation, imaging, and subsequent follow-up and treatment. The evaluation of patients with AHT at the time of initial assessment is also addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":19730,"journal":{"name":"Paediatrics & child health","volume":"30 7","pages":"641-655"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12770971/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145918210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pediatric gallstone disease, postoperative outcomes, and endoscopic management: a single centre 5-year experience.","authors":"Sukhdeep Jatana, Anastasia Sizov, Uzair Jogiat, Ioana Bratu","doi":"10.1093/pch/pxaf051","DOIUrl":"10.1093/pch/pxaf051","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Pediatric gallstone disease is increasing in incidence, possibly due to rising rates of childhood obesity. There are concerns about delayed presentations and the need for surgery and endoscopic management. The aim of this project is to assess rates of cholecystectomy in pediatrics, distribution of pathology, impact of body mass index (BMI), and need for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We performed a retrospective cohort study of pediatric patients undergoing cholecystectomy and compared baseline characteristics and outcomes between different pathologies and between overweight (BMI ≥ 85<sup>th</sup> percentile) and normal weight cohorts.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 210 patients were included with 108 (51.4%) undergoing elective gallbladder surgery, 35 (16.7%) undergoing emergent gallbladder surgery, and 67 (32.0%) requiring surgery for bile duct disease. Most were female (77.3%), overweight (69.9%), and adolescents (mean age 14.0 ± 2.9). Metabolic syndrome-associated steatotic liver disease was present in 5.3%, hereditary spherocytosis in 7.7%, and sickle cell disease in 1.4%. Thirty-eight required ERCP (18.1%). Patients presenting emergently had much longer lengths of stay than did those with elective admissions (median 3.0 ± 3.0 versus 0.0 ± 1.0 days, P < 0.001). Overweight patients more frequently experienced complications than the normal weight cohort (16% versus 7%, P = 0.044). Furthermore, length of stay (LOS) was also higher in the normal weight cohort than in the overweight group in elective biliary colic patients and emergent gallbladder patients (P = 0.007 and 0.042, respectively).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Gallstone disease in pediatrics often presents emergently. This is associated with worse outcomes such as prolonged LOS when compared with non-urgent cases. A significant proportion of patients present with common bile duct disease and require ERCP. Early diagnosis leading to surgical referral for patients with gallstone disease and multimodal strategies to decrease risk factors and expedite weight loss may help prevent complicated gallstone disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":19730,"journal":{"name":"Paediatrics & child health","volume":"30 7","pages":"598-606"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12663773/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145649161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How not to miss congenital syphilis.","authors":"Joan L Robinson","doi":"10.1093/pch/pxaf019","DOIUrl":"10.1093/pch/pxaf019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19730,"journal":{"name":"Paediatrics & child health","volume":"30 5","pages":"380-381"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12408470/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145016098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current pathogen profile for bacteremia in a tertiary care pediatric emergency department in Canada.","authors":"Alino Demean Loghin, Brandon Noyon, Charlotte Grandjean-Blanchet, Olivia Ostrow, Émilie Vallières, Jocelyn Gravel","doi":"10.1093/pch/pxaf046","DOIUrl":"10.1093/pch/pxaf046","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Bacteremia in children can lead to septic shock, meningitis or death. Knowledge of common pathogens and predictors is crucial for appropriate lifesaving management.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>We aimed to identify pathogens and associated variables in children with bacteremia presenting to the emergency department (ED).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This retrospective cohort study was conducted in a tertiary pediatric hospital in Montreal, Canada (2018-2024). The full cohort included all children with a positive blood culture drawn in the ED while this study focused on cases of true bacteremia identified through medical record evaluation by two raters. The primary outcome was pathogen distribution. Potential pathogen-associated independent variables included demographics, vaccination status, recent travel, clinical presentation, and known risk factors. The primary analysis focused on pathogen prevalence, while secondary analysis assessed associations between predictors and pathogens using Chi-squared tests.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 368 bacteremia cases (median age: 39 months), the most common pathogens were <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (25%), <i>Escherichia coli</i> (16%), <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i> (9.0%) and <i>non-typhoidal Salmonella</i> (8.7%). Overall, 175 (48%) had risk factors, including internal devices (n = 80, 22%), age less than 3 months (n = 59, 16%), or immunosuppression (n = 55, 15%). Significant associations emerged: 34% (n = 38) of <i>Staphylococcus spp.</i> infections involved internal devices, 62% (n = 24) of <i>Salmonella spp.</i> infections had recent travel, and 38% (n = 22) of <i>E. coli</i> infections and 69% (n = 11) of group B <i>Streptococcus</i> infections occurred in infants aged under 3 months.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our study highlights current key pathogens and associated predictors in pediatric bacteremia. Travel history, internal hardware, age, and immunosuppression are crucial for clinicians to consider in its assessment and management.</p>","PeriodicalId":19730,"journal":{"name":"Paediatrics & child health","volume":"30 7","pages":"582-586"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12663776/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145649057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mackenzie Merrell Macza Heidel, Lorynn Labbie, Andrea Moir, Emi Rucinski, Ananna Arna, Maia Poon, Maggie Wang, Shaoni Chakraborty, Sarah Wong, Lily Yang, Alejandra Van Dusen, Jessica Maher
{"title":"The ages and stages of paediatric social prescribing.","authors":"Mackenzie Merrell Macza Heidel, Lorynn Labbie, Andrea Moir, Emi Rucinski, Ananna Arna, Maia Poon, Maggie Wang, Shaoni Chakraborty, Sarah Wong, Lily Yang, Alejandra Van Dusen, Jessica Maher","doi":"10.1093/pch/pxaf045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pch/pxaf045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social determinants of health can profoundly impact child and adolescent health outcomes. As demands on Canadian primary health care continue to grow, there is an increasing risk that patients' needs will go unmet. Social prescribing offers a practical way to address these concerns across all ages. Using a personalized approach, social prescribing enables healthcare professionals to identify individuals' non-medical needs and connect them with appropriate community resources via dedicated community connectors. These connectors can collaborate with children, adolescents, and their families to explore their values, co-create a social prescription, support its implementation, and provide longitudinal follow-up. Pediatric healthcare providers are particularly well-poised to make these referrals to deliver comprehensive care that supports their patients' holistic development. This commentary highlights representative examples of Canadian social prescribing initiatives that can benefit pediatric patients, emphasizing how these practices can be adapted across developmental stages and grow alongside the individual.</p>","PeriodicalId":19730,"journal":{"name":"Paediatrics & child health","volume":"30 6","pages":"432-436"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12495514/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145233134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Omaymah Abulannaz, Chelsea Ruth, Roxana Dragan, Brenden Dufault, Andi Camden, Geert W 't Jon, Lauren E Kelly
{"title":"Trends of prenatal opioid utilization and neonatal abstinence syndrome in Manitoba, Canada: A 26-year population-based cohort study.","authors":"Omaymah Abulannaz, Chelsea Ruth, Roxana Dragan, Brenden Dufault, Andi Camden, Geert W 't Jon, Lauren E Kelly","doi":"10.1093/pch/pxaf028","DOIUrl":"10.1093/pch/pxaf028","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Opioids are prescribed for pain and as opioid agonist therapy for opioid use disorder. This can lead to neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) in newborns when used in pregnancy. Few studies have described trends in prenatal opioid prescriptions and NAS by important determinants of health.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To examine trends in prenatal opioid prescriptions and NAS diagnosis rates we conducted a population-based cohort study of live births in Manitoba, Canada, from January 1995 to March 2021. Live births were considered exposed to opioids prenatally if the pregnant person filled ≥1 opioid prescription during pregnancy. We described trends in NAS diagnosis rates by year, sex, urbanicity, and income quintile.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The cohort included 381,826 live births, of which 26,382 (6.7%) were exposed to prescription opioids prenatally. The proportion of live births exposed to opioid prescriptions during pregnancy increased from 3.7% in 1995 to 7.4% in 2017; however, there was a reduction in recent years. We identified a decrease in codeine prescriptions during pregnancy and an increased number of prescriptions for more potent opioids (oxycodone, hydromorphone, morphine, and opioid agonist therapy). During the study period, there were 1318 newborns diagnosed with NAS. The incidence of NAS in Manitoba more than tripled between 1995 and 2021 (2.0 to 7.6 per 1000 live births).</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>The incidence of NAS increased over the study period, in line with other jurisdictions. Further research is needed to study the safety of different opioid agonist therapies and multidisciplinary support needed to support parents to care for newborns with NAS in the postpartum period and beyond.</p>","PeriodicalId":19730,"journal":{"name":"Paediatrics & child health","volume":"30 7","pages":"568-575"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12663783/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145649191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bryarre Gudmundson, Mary Seshia, Sharla Fast, Chelsea Day, Christy Pylypjuk
{"title":"Factors affecting continuation of mother's-own-(breast)milk feeding until discharge from the NICU for infants born preterm less than 32 weeks: A cohort study.","authors":"Bryarre Gudmundson, Mary Seshia, Sharla Fast, Chelsea Day, Christy Pylypjuk","doi":"10.1093/pch/pxaf035","DOIUrl":"10.1093/pch/pxaf035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To quantify the feeding volumes and factors associated with feeding mothers-own-(breast) milk until discharge for preterm neonates born less than 32 weeks.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a retrospective cohort study (2010-2020). Neonates born <32 weeks and admitted to NICU with stored feeding records were eligible for inclusion. Information about daily feeding patterns (volume and sources), maternal demographics, birth data, and postnatal conditions were abstracted using standard data collection forms. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze results and compare groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 436 newborns born <32 weeks, 372 met the inclusion criteria for the final analysis. While 87.9% of neonates had fed with mother's-own-milk initiated, only 53.5% continued these feeds until discharge from NICU. Over the study period, there was a significant decline in both initiation (<i>P</i> = 0.002) and continuation of feeds with mother's-own-milk (<i>P</i> < 0.0001). Factors positively associated with the continuation of mother's-own-milk to hospital discharge included older maternal age (<i>P</i> = 0.0002) and primiparity (<i>P</i> = 0.002). Continuation of mother's-own-milk was also associated with an earlier date of first feed with mother's-own-milk and higher volumes of breast milk production (<i>P</i> < 0.004). Volume of mother's-own-milk fed on Day 7 of admission was significant in predicting continuation to discharge. Factors negatively associated with continuation of feeds to discharge included high BMI (<i>P</i> = 0.009), cigarette smoking (<i>P</i> = 0.004), substance abuse (<i>P</i> = 0.0001), multiples (<i>P</i> = 0.038), and remote residence (<i>P</i> = 0.002).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Early initiation of mother's-own-(breast)milk improves continuation throughout NICU admission until discharge. Investigation into barriers to breastfeeding and targeted support for mothers (particularly those that are younger, multiparous, and/or from remote locations) are urgently needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":19730,"journal":{"name":"Paediatrics & child health","volume":"30 6","pages":"518-526"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12495529/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145233125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}