Latest Updates

Evaluation and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity
- 2017 Pediatric Obesity-Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practive Guideline
- 2017 NASPGHAN clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children: recommendations from the Expert Committee on NAFLD (ECON) and the North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN)

Evaluation and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity
- 2017 Pediatric Obesity-Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practive Guideline
- 2017 NASPGHAN clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children: recommendations from the Expert Committee on NAFLD (ECON) and the North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN)

Pancreatic and Adrenal Disorders and Considerations
- Although diabetes mellitus is a frequent disease encountered in the intensive care unit, critically ill patients may have other reasons for glycemic dysfunction.
- Hyperglycemia may cause multisystem dysfunction and poor outcomes, including increased in-hospital mortality. Hypoglycemia and glucose variability are both independent risk factors for increased mortality.
- Adrenal insufficiency in critically ill patients without preexisting adrenal disease is known as critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency.

Principles and Techniques of Abdominal Access and Physiology of Pneumoperitoneum
- Decreasing pain at access incisions
- Multi-modal pain management, TAPP block, opioid sparing analgesia.
- Heated, humidified CO2.

Principles and Techniques of Abdominal Access and Physiology of Pneumoperitoneum
- Decreasing pain at access incisions
- Multi-modal pain management, TAPP block, opioid sparing analgesia.
- Heated, humidified CO2.





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