CANADIAN PAEDIATRIC SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM ADR Tip of the Month How are adverse drug

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CPSP HIGHLIGHTS Hypotonia in a newborn: Unravelling more than expected A 30-year-old healthy primigravida delivers a daughter at 35 weeks’ gestation. Her pregnancy was uneventful except for decreased fetal movements. A

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• Hypotonia
• Anticipation
• Myotonia
• Neonatology
• Canadian Paediatric Society
• Health
• Medicine
• Myotonic dystrophy

CPSP Highlights From bruises to brain injury: The physician’s role in the assessment of inflicted traumatic head injury Michelle GK Ward MD, Child and Youth Protection Program; W James King MD, Division of Pediatric M

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• Health
• Shaken baby syndrome
• Head injury
• Child abuse
• Bruise
• Intracranial hemorrhage
• Specialty
• Neurotrauma
• Medicine
• Emergency medicine

CPSP Highlights Necrotizing fasciitis – A possible fatal varicella complication A three-year-old boy presents on the fourth day of a varicella infection. He is febrile (temperature 39°C), toxic and unable to walk beca

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• Herpesviruses
• Viral diseases
• Vaccines
• Pediatrics
• Chickenpox
• Vaccination schedule
• Necrotizing fasciitis
• Vaccination
• Canadian Paediatric Society
• Medicine
• Microbiology
• Health

CPSP HIGHLIGHTS The changing landscape of diabetes in Canadian children 15-year-old Hispanic male presents to your office with a one-week history of significant fatigue. He denies associated symptoms. His past medical hi

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• Endocrinology
• Maturity onset diabetes of the young
• Diabetes mellitus type 1
• Diabetes mellitus
• Gestational diabetes
• Diabetes management
• Insulin resistance
• Insulin
• Hyperglycemia
• Diabetes
• Endocrine system
• Medicine

CPSP HIGHLIGHTS Human growth hormone therapy in Prader-Willi syndrome Isabella is a nine-year-old with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), secondary to a paternal interstitial deletion (15q-). Her parents seek your advice on th

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• Pediatrics
• Bariatrics
• Body shape
• Nutrition
• Syndromes
• Prader–Willi syndrome
• Growth hormone treatment
• Obesity
• Growth hormone
• Health
• Medicine
• Biology

CPSP HIGHLIGHTS Unravelling a failed newborn hearing screening female infant was born to a healthy 28-year-old primiparous O-positive kindergarten teacher, and weighed 2.5 kg, measured 47 cm in length and had a head cir

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• Medicine
• Congenital cytomegalovirus infection
• Microbiology
• Viral diseases
• Jaundice
• Ganciclovir
• Hearing impairment
• Human cytomegalovirus
• Herpesviruses
• Health
• Infections specific to the perinatal period

CPSP Commentary Can surveillance provide epidemiological data on Aboriginal health? Danielle Grenier MD, Canadian Paediatric Society, Ottawa; Shazhan Amed MD, BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver; Paul Dancey MD, Janeway

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• Congenital cytomegalovirus infection
• Canadian Paediatric Society
• Diabetes mellitus
• Epidemiology
• Infection
• Maturity onset diabetes of the young
• Health
• Diabetes
• Medicine

CPSP HIGHLIGHTS Baby walker survey: Results and next steps The Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program (CPSP) sent a one-time survey on injuries associated with baby walkers to all CPSP participants to obtain data on th

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• Walker
• CPS
• Canadian Paediatric Society
• Healthcare in Canada
• Baby walker

CPSP HIGHLIGHTS Complementary and alternative medicine in paediatrics: Looking at the safety profile he parents of a five-year-old boy with asthma and atopic dermatitis started him on echinacea to prevent upper respirat

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• Healthcare in Canada
• Alternative medicine
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Echinacea
• Atopic dermatitis
• Physician
• Patient safety
• Medicine
• Health
• Canadian Paediatric Society