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CHOP Evaluates Strategies in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) to Enhance Communication and Ensure Equitable Participation in Research

May 17, 2024

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).

CHOP Researchers Identify Clinical Features of MIS-C in Children

Jun 18, 2020

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

May 15, 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

Feb 25, 2020

The new guidelines address how to treat children with complex medical condition.

Tick. Tick. Tick. Defusing the Sepsis Timebomb

Apr 30, 2019

Efforts across CHOP search for faster, more accurate ways to diagnose deadly infection.

Diagnosing Sepsis with Machine and the Human Touch

Oct 16, 2018

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

Sep 25, 2018

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

Jun 26, 2018

CHOP’s multidisciplinary early alert system for sepsis is designed to flag at-risk children within minutes of arrival in the emergency room.

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