Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Agreement on a pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome diagnosis was common using 2015 criteria. Most ...

A chest wall deformity is an abnormality in the ribs, sternum (or breastbone), cartilage, and other tissues in your child’s chest. The chest wall protects vital organs like the heart and lungs and ...

Pectus carinatum, also known as pigeon breast or pigeon chest, causes your breastbone and ribs to push outward. Pectus carinatum typically becomes obvious between the ages of 11–16, but it can also ...

Unless pneumonia is suspected, clinicians should not prescribe antibiotics for most children with chest infections, according to findings of the ARTIC-PC randomized controlled trial, published in The ...

When Dr. Robert Kelly operates on a pediatric patient, he isn’t just fixing a sternum that bows out or caves in. He’s also restoring self-esteem. About 80 percent of his patients are boys age 9 to 14, ...

Researchers identified 11 studies for the systematic review, 10 of which were included in the meta-analysis that assessed 3,052,540 pediatric patients (mean age, 10.1-13 years) who presented to the ED ...

There are several signs characteristic of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children and adolescents, but a sleep study interpreted according to pediatric standards is the only way to properly diagnose ...