MASSDEVICE ON CALL — When Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) in 2007 recalled its Sprint Fidelis defibrillator leads, what was designed as a comparative clinical study turned into a registry of already-treated patients, many of which were children.
Pediatrics
A day in the life: A pediatric neurosurgeon’s vision
Lindsay Hoshaw contributed to this post.
Personal health record use by adolescents
In response to many questions about PHR use by adolescents, I asked Fabienne Bourgeois, the expert at Children’s Hospital Boston, to write this guest blog post –
As more and more practices and hospitals are making patient portals available to their patients, providers of adolescent patients are encountering a major hurdle: how to handle confidential adolescent information.
Raising an early warning in the ICU: T3
By Scott Howe
Tourniquets go from combat to kids
By Scott Howe
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, first responders did whatever they could to help victims. For many of those injured, tourniquets proved to be the difference between saving and losing a limb—or a life.
Honoring an FDA champion of safe treatments for children
By: Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D.
It has been 11 years since Congress passed the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act mandating the creation of the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics (OPT) at FDA. But it has been light years in terms of the progress we have made to ensure that children have access to innovative, safe and effective medical products.
‘Could we have given her intravenous oxygen?’ Breathing an idea to life
Telemedicine brings expert blindness screenings to preemies
We’re in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at South Shore Hospital. Six tiny, swaddled preemies are ready to be examined, their eyes numbed and their pupils dilated with special drops.
Building a body, one organ chip at a time
It may not look like it, but it’s a lung, just in chip form.
By Tom Ulrich
They don’t look like much sitting in your hand. A few pieces of clear plastic, each smaller than an Altoids tin, with channels visible inside and holes for plugging tubing into them.
But fill them with cells and treat those cells the right way, and they turn into something amazing: tiny hearts, lungs, guts, kidneys.
Web platform tracks ADHD patients in real time
It was a chance encounter. Eugenia Chan, MD, MPH, and Eric Fleegler, MD, MPH, both worked at Boston Children’s Hospital, and had met one another once or twice, but only in passing.
Children with medical complexity: Caught in a political and economic crossfire
By Jay Berry