Objective: Pain management in children requires rapid and sensitive assessment. The
Wong-Baker FACES pain scale (WBFPS) is a widely accepted, validated tool to assess pain in …

BACKGROUND: Aerosolized epoprostenol is an alternative for inhaled nitric oxide in the
management of pulmonary arterial hypertension and possibly acute hypoxemia. Our objective …

BACKGROUND: Spontaneous breathing trials (SBTs) are used to assess the readiness for
discontinuation of mechanical ventilation. When airway resistance (R aw ) is elevated, the …

Several patient populations have been identified as high risk for extubation failure despite
successful completion of a spontaneous breathing trial (SBT). Extubation failure and …

It is clear that CT scan use should be as safe and limited in scope as possible for children.
Common decisions on the use of CT imaging for mild head injury can now be guided by a …

This paper discusses the fractional operator problem, which involves the production of many
parts on several parallel machines. In this problem, operators can monitor more than one …

Objectives Patients with multisystem inflammatory disease in children (MIS-C) are at risk of
developing shock. Our objectives were to determine independent predictors associated with …

Critical care cases are among those most frequently presented to health ethics committees
for deliberation and consultation. This is not surprising. Critical care physicians confront …

One could hear the chair creak, that beautiful California morning, as Aaron Wildavsky, dean
and founder of the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, …

The other day I took some of my students from a criminal appeals brief-writing class to drop
in on a trial. It's always good to get the students' heads out of the cold records they're reading …