July 14, 2011 — Standardized Clinical Assessment and Management Plans (SCAMP) for pediatric chest pain may facilitate targeted, cost-effective workup and management, according to the results of a ...

A chest wall deformity is an abnormality in the ribs, sternum (or breastbone), cartilage, and other tissues in your child’s chest. The chest wall protects vital organs like the heart and lungs and ...

Heart disease rarely is to blame for chest pain suffered by children, and the ailment can be evaluated cost-effectively in the ambulatory setting, according to a regional study testing an algorithmic ...

For the 7-item history questions, responses to the questions related to cough, shortness of breath and wheezing were classified as positive if the respondent answered ‘almost every day’ or ‘several ...

While sudden cardiac arrest in a child or adolescent is rare—about 20,000 cases occur each year in the U.S.—the survival rate ...

Pectus excavatum is a type of chest wall deformity. It causes your chest to look sunken or indented. This sunken shape is why people sometimes call the condition funnel chest. Pectus excavatum causes ...

Study says chest ultrasound can serve as a viable alternative to chest CT in the evaluation of pediatric patients with complicated pneumonia and parapneumonic effusion A study published in the ...

A 16-year-old boy who complained of intense pain in his chest that radiated to his left arm was rushed to the emergency department in Lombardy, Italy. Soon after he tested positive for COVID-19. The ...