Carrie L. Byington

TL;DR: Eidenced-based guidelines for management of infants and children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) were prepared by an expert panel comprising clinicians and investigators representing community pediatrics, public health, and the pediatric specialties of critical care, emergency medicine, hospital medicine, infectious diseases, pulmonology, and surgery.

TL;DR: The updated recommendations in this policy statement reflect new information regarding the seasonality of RSV circulation, palivizumab pharmacokinetics, the changing incidence of bronchiolitis hospitalizations, the effect of gestational age and other risk factors on RSV hospitalization rates, the mortality of children hospitalized with RSV infection, the effects of prophylaxis on wheezing, and palivZumab-resistant RSV isolates.

TL;DR: The increasing incidence of empyema was associated with infection due to S. pneumoniae serotype 1, outpatient treatment with certain antibiotics, ibuprofen use, and varicella.

TL;DR: An integrated diagnostic platform, the FilmArray, which fully automates the detection and identification of multiple organisms from a single sample in about one hour, and it is demonstrated that automated identification of pathogens from their corresponding target amplicon can be accomplished by analysis of the DNA melting curve of the amplicon.

TL;DR: Recommendations for immunoprophylaxis have been updated in an effort to ensure optimal balance of benefit and cost from this expensive intervention and are consistent with the 2009 Red Book recommendations.