2 Minute Medicine

Key Points: The 2022 American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines slightly raised phototherapy thresholds for most infants to balance preventing encephalopathy with avoiding the harms of over treatment: This update reflects...

1. Adding compartment-specific knee bracing with an adherence support intervention to standard advice, information and exercise (AIE) provides a small but meaningful improvement in patient-reported outcomes in adults with knee...

1. Most second-stage delivery modes, including operative vaginal delivery and second-stage cesarean delivery, are associated with similar neurodevelopmental outcomes in children. However, sequential instrument delivery is associated with a higher...

Key Points: Hospitalized children should receive isotonic fluids such as 0.9% normal saline rather than hypotonic solutions for routine maintenance: This standard practice significantly reduces the risk of iatrogenic hyponatremia...