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COVID-19 Pediatric

Evidence Based Medicine

The Nemours medical librarians and faculty are searching the literature to provide you with the best pediatric evidence based resources on COVID-19.  The freely available evidence based articles and guidance listed below are updated twice weekly.

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Interactive Case Primer

COVID-19 Primer: Virtual Patient Simulation. An Interactive Case from NEJM Resident 360

Brief Report: Fecal-Oral Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 In Children is it Time to Change Our Approach?

(6 minutes)

Brief Report: The Early Experiences of a Single Tertiary Italian Emergency Department Treating COVID-19 in Children

(7 minutes)

Viewpoint: National Active Surveillance to Understand and Inform Neonatal Care in COVID-19

(8 minutes)

Commentary: Supporting Adolescents and Young Adults Exposed to or Experiencing Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic

(11 minutes)

Commentary: Recognising and Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

(5 minutes)

Letter: Children With Cancer in the Time of COVID-19: An 8-week Report From the Six Pediatric Onco-Hematology Centers in Lombardia, Italy

(6 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Case Report: Special Dermatological Presentation of Paediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Related to COVID-19: Erythema Multiforme

(4 minutes)

July 1, 2020

Highlighted Article: Interim Guidance for Basic and Advanced Life Support in Adults, Children, and Neonates With Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19: From the Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee and Get With The Guidelines - Resuscitation Adult and Pediatric Task Forces of the American Heart Association

(15 minutes)

Practice Update: Non-Elective Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization During COVID-19 Pandemic: A New York Center Experience. (Free HTML, register for PDF)

(9 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Neurologic and Radiographic Findings Associated With COVID-19 Infection in Children

(13 minutes)

The Impact of Imposed Delay in Elective Pediatric Neurosurgery: An Informed Hierarchy of Need in the Time of Mass Casualty Crisis

(24 minutes)

Updated Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of COVID-19 in Children: Experts' Consensus Statement (Condensed Version of the Second Edition)

(17 minutes)

Case Report: SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Patients With Down Syndrome, Congenital Heart Disease, and Pulmonary Hypertension: Is Down Syndrome a Risk Factor?

(8 minutes)

Case Report: 4-month-old Boy Coinfected With COVID-19 and Adenovirus

(10 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Letter: Covid-19 in Peru: From Supervised Walks for Children to the First Case of Kawasaki-like Syndrome

(5 minutes)

July 2, 2020

Outcomes of a Rapid Adolescent Telehealth Scale-Up During the COVID-19 Pandemic

(21 minutes)

Child Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Respiratory Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

(5 minutes)

Case Report: Cardiac Dysfunction and Thrombocytopenia-Associated Multiple Organ Failure Inflammation Phenotype in a Severe Paediatric Case of COVID-19

(7 minutes)

Editorial: Prioritising Children's Rights in the COVID-19 Response

(6 minutes)

Editorial: Prioritising Paediatric Surveillance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

(10 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Viewpoint: Is It Kawasaki Shock Syndrome, Kawasaki-like Disease or Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Disease? The Importance of Semantic in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic

(13 minutes)

Letter: Finding Ordinary Magic in Extraordinary Times: Child and Adolescent Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic

(5 minutes)

July 3, 2020

Viewpoint: School closure, COVID ‐19 and lunch programme: Unprecedented undernutrition crisis in low‐middle income countries

(12 minutes)

Comment: Asymptomatic Case of Covid-19 in an Infant with Cystic Fibrosis

(3 minutes)

Letter: Spotlight on Child Abuse and Neglect Response in the Time of COVID-19

(3 minutes)

Letter: Rise in the Incidence of Abusive Head Trauma During the COVID-19 Pandemic

(5 minutes)

Letter: Will children reveal their secret? The coronavirus dilemma

(6 minutes)

Letter: Indirect effects of COVID-19 on child health care: delayed diagnosis of developmental dysplasia of the hip

(4 minutes)

July 4, 2020

*MIS-C article* Emergence of Kawasaki disease related to SARS-CoV-2 infection in an epicentre of the French COVID-19 epidemic: a time-series analysis

(19 minutes)

Limiting hospital resources for acute appendicitis in children: Lessons learned from the U.S. epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic

(13 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Commentary: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in COVID-19 Pandemic

(7 minutes)

Letter: COVID-19 and child and adolescent psychiatry: an unexpected blessing for part of our population?

(6 minutes)

July 5, 2020

Practice Update: Management strategies for children with COVID-19: ESPR practical recommendations​

(26 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Gastrointestinal involvements in children with COVID-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome

(7 minutes)

Adolescent psychiatric disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown

(24 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Case Report: Coronary artery dilatation in a child with hyperinflammatory syndrome with SARS-CoV-2-positive serology

(4 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Commentary: Kawasaki disease in the COVID-19 era: a distinct clinical phenotype?

(6 minutes)

Commentary: Rapid Testing of Healthcare Employees for COVID-19: What Can We Learn from the Seattle Experience?

(10 minutes)

Letter: The impact of social distancing on pediatric neurosurgical emergency referrals during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective observational cohort study

(5 minutes)

July 6, 2020

Practice Update: Evaluation and Follow-Up of Pediatric COVID-19 in Terms of Cardiac Involvement: A Scientific Statement From the Association of Turkish Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

(20 minutes)

Multicenter Study: Characterisation of COVID-19 Pandemic in Paediatric Age Group: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

(21 minutes)

Severe and Fatal Forms of COVID-19 in Children

(11 minutes)

COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspective from Italian Pediatric Emergency Physicians

(16 minutes)

Pills to think about in allergic rhinitis children during COVID‐19 era

(5 minutes)

Case Report: A Teenager with Congenital Heart Defect and Covid-19

(6 minutes)

Perspective: Zooming Toward a Telehealth Solution for Vulnerable Children With Obesity During Coronavirus Disease 2019

(5 minutes)

Letter: COVID-19 in pediatric patients: What the prehospital teams need to know

(5 minutes)

July 7, 2020

Highlighted Article: European Consensus Recommendations for Neonatal and Paediatric Retrievals of Positive or Suspected COVID-19 Patients

(25 minutes)

The clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 positive neonates

(14 minutes)

COVID-19 PICU Guidelines: For High- And Limited-Resource Settings

(50 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Case Report: COVID-19 Associated Kawasaki-like Multisystem Inflammatory Disease in an Adult

(6 minutes)

Case Report: Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Adults to Children

(9 minutes)

Letter: Coronavirus disease 2019 3 months after hematopoietic stem cell transplant: A pediatric case report

(4 minutes)

Letter: At home dose escalation of Propranolol for Infantile Hemangiomas during the COVID ‐19 Pandemic

(6 minutes)

July 8, 2020

Implementation of Home-Based Telemental Health in a Large Child Psychiatry Department During the COVID-19 Crisis

(19 minutes)

Nemours author alert: (Dr. Tushar Chandra, Radiology, NCH):

 A Primer for Pediatric Radiologists on Infection Control in an Era of COVID-19

(30 minutes)

Brief Report: SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Spanish Children with Chronic Kidney Pathologies

(9 minutes)

*MIS-C article* A Viral Infection Explanation for Kawasaki Disease in General and for COVID-19 Virus-Related Kawasaki Disease Symptoms

(9 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Pediatric Inflammatory Mulitsyste, Syndrome with Central Nervous System Involvement and Hypocomplementemia Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection

(5 minutes)

Case Report: Myocarditis in a 16-year-old Boy Positive for SARS-CoV-2

(4 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Case Report: Hyperinflammatory Shock Related to COVID-19 in a Patient Presenting With Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: First Case from Iran

(7 minutes)

Clinical Features of Critical Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Children

(9 minutes)

Opinion: Health-education to prevent COVID-19 in schoolchildren: a call to action

(9 minutes)

Letter: The Value of Chest CT as a COVID-19 Screening Tool in Children

(8 minutes)

July 9, 2020

Provision of Pediatric Immunization Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: an Assessment of Capacity Among Pediatric Immunization Providers Participating in the Vaccines for Children Program — United States, May 2020

(12 minutes)

Practice Update: Cardiopulmonary Considerations for High School Student-Athletes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: NFHS-MSSM Guidance Statement

(7 minutes)

Application and Preliminary Outcomes of Remote Diagnosis and Treatment During the COVID-19 Outbreak: Retrospective Cohort Study

(18 minutes)

Case Series: SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Febrile Neonates

(17 minutes)

Case Report: Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Renal Failure in an Adolescent with COVID-19

(9 minutes)

July 10, 2020

Highlighted Article: Should Pediatric Patients Be Prioritized When Rationing Life-Saving Treatments During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

(27 minutes)

The Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on U.S. and Canadian PICUs

(20 minutes)

COVID-19 Epidemic: Clinical Characteristics of Patients in Pediatric Isolation Ward

(11 minutes)

Chilblains in children in the setting of COVID‐19 pandemic

(10 minutes)

Case Report: Erythema multiforme-like lesions in children and COVID-19

(6 minutes)

Case Report: Chilblain-like lesions in children following suspected COVID-19 infection

(6 minutes)

July 11, 2020

Practice Update: CHEST Reviews: Addressing reduced laboratory-based pulmonary function testing during a pandemic

(32 minutes)

Guillain-Barre Syndrome Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Detection and a COVID-19 Infection in a Child

(11 minutes)

Operationalizing an Academic Pediatric Practice during the COVID-19 Crisis

(8 minutes)

Extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19

(54 minutes)

Clinical characteristics and outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Italian pediatric oncology patients: a study from the Infectious Diseases Working Group of the AIEOP

(17 minutes)

A call to action to address COVID-19–induced global food insecurity to prevent hunger, malnutrition, and eating pathology

(7 minutes)

Letter: Telemedicine for management of paediatric infectious diseases during COVID-19 outbreak

(4 minutes)

July 12, 2020

*MIS-C article* Intensive care admissions of children with paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) in the UK: a multicentre observational study

(22 minutes)

Thromboinflammation in COVID-19 acute lung injury

(16 minutes)

Case Report: Guillain–Barré Syndrome Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Pediatric Patient

(9 minutes)

July 13, 2020

Disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrant communities in the United States

(15 minutes)

Nemours author alert: (Dr. Sharon M. Weinberger, Cardiology, AIDHC): 

Telehealth for Pediatric Cardiology Practitioners in the Time of COVID-19

(29 minutes)

Challenges of COVID-19 in children in low- and middle-income countries

(15 minutes)

Exploring the young demographic profile of COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong: Evidence from migration and travel history data

(23 minutes)

Brief Report: Intrauterine Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Preterm Infant

(11 minutes)

Instructive Case: Probable Vertical Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

(14 minutes)

Commentary: SARS-COV-2 Maternal-Child Transmission: Can It Occur Before Delivery and How Do We Prove It?

(9 minutes)

Case Report: Clinical and Imaging Features of COVID-19 in a Neonate

(6 minutes)

July 14, 2020

Hot Topic: Transplacental transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection

(15 minutes)

Practice Update: Acute Kidney Injury and Special Considerations during Renal Replacement Therapy in Children with Coronavirus Disease-19: Perspective from the Critical Care Nephrology Section of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care

(28 minutes)

Neurological Involvement in COVID-19 and Potential Mechanisms: A Review

(26 minutes)

COVID-19 Disease Severity Risk Factors for Pediatric Patients in Italy

(28 minutes)

Prevention and control measures for neonatal COVID-19 infection: a scoping review

(26 minutes)

Viewpoint: Paediatric ethical issues during the COVID-19 pandemic are not just about ventilator triage

(7 minutes)

Comment: COVID-19 in a pediatric heart transplant recipient: Emergence of donor-specific antibodies

(4 minutes)

Letter: COVID‐19 in a child with tuberculous airway compression

(5 minutes)

July 15, 2020

Practice Update: Care Delivery for Children with Epilepsy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Survey of Clinicians

(21 minutes)

Compliance with infection control rules among adolescents in Oslo during the COVID-19 pandemic

(11 minutes)

Using the prone position could help to combat the development of fast hypoxia in some patients with COVID‐19

(11 minutes)

Case Report: Anterior wall myocardial infarction in a 16-year-old man caused by coronary artery aneurysm during the outbreak of COVID-19

(8 minutes)

Insights: Family separation during COVID-19

(5 minutes)

Ethics Rounds: Pediatric Palliative Care in a Pandemic: Role Obligations, Moral Distress, and the Care You Can Give

(16 minutes)

Comment: What do differences in case fatality ratios between children and adults tell us about COVID-19?

(5 minutes)

July 16, 2020

Nemours author alert: (Ann E. Kazak, PhD, Director, Nemours Center for Healthcare Delivery Science, AIDHC): 

Psychology is an essential science: American Psychologist highlights the role of psychology in understanding and addressing COVID-19

(5 minutes)

COVID-19: minimising contaminated aerosol spreading during CPAP treatment

(9 minutes)

Mild SARS-CoV-2 infections in children might be based on evolutionary biology and linked with host reactive oxidative stress and antioxidant capabilities

(14 minutes)

Case Report: SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Thrombosis: Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolens Presenting with Venous Gangrene in a Child

(13 minutes)

Reflections: Vulnerable Children in a Dual Epidemic

(6 minutes)

Debate: Lessons learned in lockdown – a one‐day remotely delivered training on low‐intensity psychological interventions for common mental health conditions

(7 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Letter: Insights into pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome and COVID-19

(7 minutes)

July 17, 2020

Highlighted Article: A literature review of 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) infection in neonates and children​

(32 minutes)

Child Care in the Time of COVID-19: A Period of Challenge and Opportunity

(25 minutes)

Cardiac workup and monitoring in hospitalised children with COVID- 19

(12 minutes)

Considerations and Future Directions for Conducting Clinical Research with Pediatric Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

(12 minutes)

Peer Influence in Adolescence: Public-Health Implications for COVID-19

(9 minutes)

After the First Wave of COVID-19: Reflections from Italy

(8 minutes)

Perspective: Trauma Does not Quarantine: Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic

(6 minutes)

*MIS-C article* Letter: Cytokine Profile in an Adolescent With Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Temporally Related to COVID-19

(5 minutes)

Letter: Central Apnea in an Adolescent With COVID-19

(5 minutes)

Latest updates

July 18, 2020