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The American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) and Committee on Trauma released a best practice guideline for palliative care in trauma patients in 2017. Utilization of pediatric palliative care services for pediatric…
Introduction/Aims: Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are one of the leading causes of death and disability in children and adolescents. A significant number of those who survive suffer from the lasting cognitive, physical, or behavioral effects of TBI…
Aims and Objectives: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) is the leading cause of death in children. Our aim was to determine the mode of death for children who died with sTBI in a Pediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU) and evaluate factors associated…
BACKGROUND: Oropharyngeal dysphagia encompasses problems with the oral preparatory phase of swallowing (chewing and preparing the food), oral phase (moving the food or fluid posteriorly through the oral cavity with the tongue into the back of the…
