Journal of Pediatric Surgery

26/10/2025

Post-Discharge Antibiotics do not Prevent Intra-Abdominal Abscesses after Appendectomy in Children https://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(22)00698-4/fulltext?rss=yes

Appendicitis is the most common pediatric disease process that requires surgical intervention, and nearly 30% of such cases are perforated at the time of appendectomy, [1] with numbers rising in recent years [2,3]. Perforated appendicitis has been a major reason for hospitalization in the pediatric....

24/10/2025

Pediatric Cerebrovascular Trauma: Incidence, Management, and Outcomes https://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(22)00697-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Cerebrovascular trauma (CVT) is rare in the pediatric population. Although CVT can be further defined as blunt or penetrating injury, most studies in the literature focus on blunt CVT to the carotid or vertebral artery [1–3]. Using national trauma databases, the incidence of blunt CVT has been rep...

21/10/2025

The Epidemiology of Paediatric Burn Injuries in Johannesburg, South Africa https://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(22)00700-X/fulltext?rss=yes

Children remain the most common victim of burns in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study describes the epidemiology of paediatric burn injury among patients admitted to Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital.

19/10/2025

Pediatric Penetrating Thoracic Trauma: Examining the Impact of Trauma Center Designation and Penetrating Trauma Volume on Outcomes https://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(22)00710-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Major thoracic injuries typically represent a small proportion of traumatic injuries in the pediatric population (0.1–30%) [1–3]. Penetrating mechanisms comprise only 10% of these thoracic injuries but are associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality, especially in the presence o...

17/10/2025

Safety and Feasibility of Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Angiography in Pediatric Gastrointestinal Surgery: A Systematic Review https://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(22)00711-4/fulltext?rss=yes

In gastrointestinal surgery, precise perfusion assessment is important to prevent complications such as ischemia, anastomotic leakage, and strictures. By using a fluorescence imaging device, perfusion can be visualized in real-time intraoperatively [1]. In the adult population, it has already been e...

16/10/2025

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15/10/2025

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14/10/2025

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Firearm Injuries in Colorado https://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(22)00706-0/fulltext?rss=yes

Pediatric firearm violence is a public health crisis and the leading cause of child and adolescent death in the United States (U.S.) [1,2]. Similar to national trends, Colorado has experienced increases in annual pediatric firearm injuries as well as several tragic mass shootings over the past two d...

12/10/2025

Hemodilution in pediatric trauma: Defining the expected hemoglobin changes in patients with liver and/or spleen injury: An ATOMAC+ secondary analysis https://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(22)00708-4/fulltext?rss=yes

Trauma has remained the leading cause of death in children, with abdominal trauma making up 10–15% of pediatric trauma morbidity [1–5]. Blunt solid organ injury (injury to the liver, spleen, or kidney) constitutes 80% of abdominal traumas, with the most common injuries being injury to the liver ...

10/10/2025

Use of Reverse Shock Index Times Glasgow Coma Scale (rSIG) to Determine Need for Transfer of Pediatric Trauma Patients to Higher Levels of Care https://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(22)00707-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Most children in the US live more than one hour from a Level 1 PTC. The Need For Trauma Intervention (NFTI) score was developed to assess trauma triage criteria and is dependent on whether someone requires one of six urgent interventions (NFTI+). We sought to determine if a novel scoring tool, rSIG,...

08/10/2025