Quick Literature Updates Episode 8
hosted by Dr. Em Tombash · StayCurrentMD
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Aerodigestive / ENT 28 items
Educational content from recorded physician discussions — not medical advice. Talk to your (or your child's) care team about your situation.
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Criteria for Pectus Repair: Update Course 2015
55 s · Published Nov 2015
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Vacuum Bell Therapy for Pectus Excavatum: Long-term Experience at a Single Center
58 s · Published Apr 2025
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Novel index to estimate the cephalocaudal extent of the excavation in pectus excavatum - JPS article
1 min · Published May 2023
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Novedoso indice para estimar la extensión cefalocaudal del hundimiento esternal en el pectus excavatum: El Índice Titanic
Published May 2023
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Cardiopulmonary Impact of the Minimally Invasive Repair of Pectus Excavatum in Pediatric Patients: A Prospective Pilot Study
55 s · Published Apr 2025
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Cryoablation in 350 Nuss procedures
56 s · Published Oct 2023
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Pediatric Surgical Oncology Research Collaborative (PSORC): Studying Rare Pediatric Tumors
56 s · Published May 2026
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Update Course Rewind 2025: Hirschsprung + ARM: Rare but Real
1 min · Published May 2026
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Update Course Rewind 2025: Hirschsprung + ARM: Rare but Real
1 min · Published May 2026
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Pooling Patients to Study Rare Pediatric Tumors: An Introduction to PSORC
56 s · Published May 2026
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The fetal frontier: A review of current and emerging fetal therapies for genetic diseases
44 s · Published May 2026
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Indocyanine green assists with sentinel lymph node mapping in pediatric and adolescent patients
1 min · Published May 2026
What the experts said
The Pediatric Surgical Oncology Research Collaborative study reviewed 15 hospitals to examine how different institutions localize small pulmonary nodules in children.
Different institutions use wires, methylene blue dye, indocyanine green, micro coils, and technetium 99 in different combinations for pulmonary nodule localization.
There was no significant difference in the success of localization between all of the different pulmonary nodule localization techniques.
The only significant differences in pulmonary nodule localization were in which institution performed each technique, and in IR, OR, and anesthesia times.
In a single institution prospective study of around 40 pediatric patients who received Nuss bar repair for pectus excavatum with perioperative ERAS pain protocol, 92% of patients were discharged on post-operative day one.
Patients receiving Nuss repair with ERAS protocol had a reduction in the total number of morphine equivalent doses received without any difference in their pain scores at the time of discharge.
In a preclinical study of transamniotic stem cell therapy for intrauterine growth restriction, subjects were divided into four groups: untreated, saline only, MSC therapy, and MSC with primer.
Overall survival in the intrauterine growth restriction stem cell study was 75%.
Gross brain weight was significantly lower in IUGR subjects with no treatment or just saline, and significantly higher in those treated with MSC.
The primed MSC group revealed significantly lowered levels of TNF alpha and interleukin beta in their brain.
Primed MSC appears to reverse some of the central nervous system effects of intrauterine growth restriction.
The National Trauma Data Bank analysis included over 40,000 adolescent trauma victims who were intubated for more than 24 hours and survived until discharge.
At three days post-intubation, there was no difference in overall hospital length of stay for adolescent trauma victims receiving tracheostomy.
In adolescent trauma victims without TBI, tracheostomy before three days decreased ICU length of stay by about 16 days compared to later tracheostomy.
Similar trends of decreased ICU length of stay were seen for all children, regardless of TBI or non-TBI status, if they received a tracheostomy before 7 days of intubation.