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Children, Volume 7, Issue 3

March 2020 - 8 articles

Cover Story: Postoperative pain treatment affects immediate and long-term outcomes in children undergoing cardiac surgery. Opioids, as part of multimodal analgesia, are effective in treating pain, however, they can be disadvantageous due to adverse side effects. Therefore, we assessed whether the local anesthetic bupivacaine as a parasternal nerve block in children post-cardiac surgery is an effective adjunct to pain management. This was a retrospective cohort study of all patients who underwent cardiothoracic surgery via median sternotomy at a large children’s hospital between November 2011 and February 2014 with and without bupivacaine following the introduction of perioperative bupivacaine in late 2012 on a single unit. 62 out of 148 patients (age 3–17 years) who received bupivacaine demonstrated decreased postoperative opioid use. View this paper.
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
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The Transport and Outcome of Sick Outborn Neonates Admitted to a Regional and District Hospital in the Upper West Region of Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Edem M. A. Tette,
  • Benjamin D. Nuertey,
  • Dominic Akaateba and
  • Naa Barnabas Gandau
Children2020, 7(3), 22;https://doi.org/10.3390/children7030022

20 March 2020

Optimum care of sick neonates often involves transporting them across different levels of care. Since their condition may deteriorate over time, attention needs to be paid to travel distances and how they are transferred. We examined the mode of tran...

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54 Citations
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The Influence of Social Support on Physical Activity in Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Exercise Self-Efficacy

  • Zhanbing Ren,
  • Linlin Hu,
  • Jane Jie Yu,
  • Qian Yu,
  • Sitong Chen,
  • Yudan Ma,
  • Jingyuan Lin,
  • Lin Yang,
  • Xiaoyun Li and
  • Liye Zou
Children2020, 7(3), 23;https://doi.org/10.3390/children7030023

20 March 2020

The purpose of this study was to examine the associations of social support and self-efficacy with physical Activity (PA) and the mediating effect of self-efficacy on the relationship between social support and PA in Chinese adolescents. Participants...

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42 Citations
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Effects of a Need-Supportive Motor Skill Intervention on Children’s Motor Skill Competence and Physical Activity

  • Joonyoung Lee,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Tsz Lun (Alan) Chu and
  • Xiangli Gu
Children2020, 7(3), 21;https://doi.org/10.3390/children7030021

17 March 2020

A need-supportive environment can provide various motivational benefits to impact children’s psychomotor developmental levels. However, very little is known about the effects of need-supportive motor skill intervention on children’s motor skill compe...

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Post-Cardiotomy Parasternal Nerve Block with Bupivacaine May Be Associated with Reduced Post-Operative Opioid Use in Children: A Retrospective Cohort Study

  • Francis X. Moga,
  • Mark D. Lo Galbo,
  • David M. Overman and
  • Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf
Children2020, 7(3), 20;https://doi.org/10.3390/children7030020

11 March 2020

Postoperative pain treatment affects immediate and long-term outcomes in children undergoing cardiac surgery. Opioids, as part of multimodal analgesia, are effective in treating pain, however, they can be disadvantageous due to adverse side effects....

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21 Citations
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Fat Mass Index (FMI) as a Trustworthy Overweight and Obesity Marker in Mexican Pediatric Population

  • Melchor Alpízar,
  • Tamara Daniela Frydman,
  • José de Jesús Reséndiz-Rojas,
  • Miguel Alejandro Trejo-Rangel and
  • Jesús Manuel De Aldecoa-Castillo
Children2020, 7(3), 19;https://doi.org/10.3390/children7030019

10 March 2020

Predictive formulas to estimate body composition in children have been explored for some time, to this date, the most accurate obesity diagnostic tool is to determine fat mass. The aim of this study is to establish cutoff points that allow for a prec...

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10 Citations
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A Non-Invasive Investigation into the Prevalence of Higher than Normal Blood Pressure, Hypertension and the Association between Blood Pressure and Body Weight in Male and Female Adolescents in the Polokwane Local Municipality, Limpopo-South Africa: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Thato Tshepo Raphadu,
  • Marlise Van Staden,
  • Winnie Maletladi Dibakwane and
  • Kotsedi Daniel Monyeki
Children2020, 7(3), 18;https://doi.org/10.3390/children7030018

4 March 2020

Background: Hypertension (HT) is one of the greatest non-communicable diseases affecting both sexes in all human populations; and it is a major cause of death and morbidity across the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence...

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9 Citations
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Using the SITAR Method to Estimate Age at Peak Height Velocity of Children in Rural South Africa: Ellisras Longitudinal Study

  • Chris Nembidzane,
  • Maseka Lesaoana,
  • Kotsedi Daniel Monyeki,
  • Alexander Boateng and
  • Phuti J. Makgae
Children2020, 7(3), 17;https://doi.org/10.3390/children7030017

3 March 2020

Various studies have been conducted on children using the Ellisras Longitudinal Study Survey in South Africa, but none of these has addressed growth variations of children in this rural location. The aim of this paper is to assess the age at peak hei...

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15 Citations
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Reliability, Consistency and Temporal Stability of Alberta Infant Motor Scale in Serbian Infants

  • Milan Lackovic,
  • Dejan Nikolic,
  • Dejan Filimonovic,
  • Ivana Petronic,
  • Sladjana Mihajlovic,
  • Zoran Golubovic,
  • Polina Pavicevic and
  • Dragana Cirovic
Children2020, 7(3), 16;https://doi.org/10.3390/children7030016

2 March 2020

Our study aimed to analyze the reliability, consistency, and temporal stability of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) in Serbian infants. Additionally, we aimed to present a percentile distribution of AIMS in the tested population. The prospective...

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