Golisano Children's Hospital

Validation of AACN’s Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool–Team

Background In 2024, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) updated the Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool (HWEAT), renamed HWEAT-Team. Objective Validating HWEAT-Team for interprofessional use. Methods This was a multisite, descriptive, nonexperimental corr...

A Call to Action to Improve Rates of Lymph Node Sampling During Wilms Tumor Resection

Failure to perform lymphadenectomies for patients with Wilms tumor (WT) was recognized as a practice gap by the American Pediatric Surgical Association in 2018. An educational campaign was conducted to promote lymphadenectomy. We sought to evaluate the national patterns of lymph...

Enteral feeding practices around neonatal packed red blood cell transfusion: A national survey of U.S. NICU providers

IntroductionAnemia and packed red blood cell (PRBC) transfusion are common in preterm infants, and feeding management during transfusion remains uncertain.ObjectiveTo characterize current opinions and enteral feeding practices surrounding PRBC transfusion among U.S. NICU provider...

Continuous Publishing as Next Step in Continuous Improvement at Hospital Pediatrics

We are excited to announce that Hospital Pediatrics has moved to a continuous publishing model. What is continuous publishing? It is a relatively new model in which articles are published shortly after acceptance versus the historical model of publication occurring when space was...

Aortopulmonary Window or Patent Ductus Arteriosus? The Window Ductus

The ductal malformation known as a “Window Ductus” or “type B ductus” is a very rare congenital anomaly. The unique anatomy results in a diagnostic and surgical dilemma. It can easily be mistaken for a “typical” patent ductus arteriosus and approached via left thoracotomy. This c...