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Turning Evidence Into Advocacy
 Turning Evidence Into Advocacy 1024 574 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller
A girl in a bright pink shirt smiles while sitting beside a large hospital window and looking outside.

The healthcare community is increasingly recognizing their role in shaping policy, leveraging front-line experience, injury data and research. In June 2024, 11-year-old Avery Russell was playing at a friend’s house when she was viciously attacked by two dogs. What happened that day changed her life — and it ultimately led to a change in Ohio’s…

Evaluation of New-to-Market Coin-Cell Battery and Medical Management Recommendations
 Evaluation of New-to-Market Coin-Cell Battery and Medical Management Recommendations 1024 790 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller
X-ray image showing a button battery lodged in a child's throat, with a callout showing a close up of the battery, highlighting the double ring around it

First peer-reviewed evaluation of a commercially available esophageal-protective lithium coin-cell battery demonstrates substantially reduced tissue injury, but researchers emphasize that current emergency medical management should remain unchanged. When a lithium coin-cell battery becomes lodged in a child’s esophagus, severe tissue injury can develop rapidly. According to the first peer-reviewed scientific evaluation of a commercially available…

From the Operating Room to the Clinic: A New Protocol for Ear Tube Surgery
 From the Operating Room to the Clinic: A New Protocol for Ear Tube Surgery 675 450 Alaina London
By: Alaina London
Pediatric patient at a follow-up appointment after in-office ear tube insertion, with a doctor examining the child’s ear while the mother provides support.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the only pediatric hospitals to offer in-office ear tubes as an established choice in their standard of care.  In the United States, bilateral myringotomy/ tympanostomy tube insertion (BTI), also known as ear tube surgery, is the most performed ambulatory pediatric surgery with about 667,000 children needing the procedure every…

High Rates of Readmission and Airway Complications Found in Tracheostomy-Dependent Infants With BPD
 High Rates of Readmission and Airway Complications Found in Tracheostomy-Dependent Infants With BPD 1024 575 Lauren Dembeck
By: Lauren Dembeck
Black-and-white photograph of a very small infant wrapped in blankets and resting in an adult’s arms. The infant is wearing a hat and has medical tubing attached to the face. One hand is raised near the face while the adult’s hand supports the infant’s body. The image is closely cropped, focusing on the infant and the protective hold of the adult in a hospital setting.

While tracheostomy can be lifesaving for infants with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia, new data highlights the risks and outcomes that families and providers must be prepared to face. Infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), the most common morbidity of prematurity, often require long-term respiratory support. Severe BPD can necessitate tracheostomy that is often paired with mechanical ventilation,…

Modulator Therapy Improves Chronic Sinus Disease in Individuals with Cystic Fibrosis
 Modulator Therapy Improves Chronic Sinus Disease in Individuals with Cystic Fibrosis 1024 683 Mary Bates, PhD
By: Mary Bates, PhD

Following 1 year of therapy, patients showed improved sinus CT metrics and clinical outcomes. Over the last decade, the development of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulator drugs has revolutionized the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF). The most widely used modulator is the triple combination elexacaftor-tezacaftor-ivacaftor (ETI), which is approved for people with CF…