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Community Pediatrics

Emergency Medicine

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Well Newborn
Session Type: APA SIG

APA SIG: Emergency Medicine and Health Care Value Combined - Infant Hypothermia: The Cost of Routine Temperature Checks

Saturday, May 4, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 602
CE: Live CME: 1.5

Disclosure(s):
Sandra Spencer, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Danni Liang, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Nathan M. Money, DO: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Chris A. Rees, MD, MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Elizabeth Wolf, MD, MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Session

Description: Routine temperature checks on infants occur daily in primary care offices, the emergency department, and outpatient clinics. While the implication of a fever are clear, what should we do when we find a hypothermic newborn in front of us? In this session, participants will hear from national experts and learn about variation in normal temperatures and consequences of routine temperature measurements at well child checks. We will also discuss variation in care for hypothermic infants in both the primary care office and the emergency department. As most physicians fear missing a serious bacterial infection or Herpes Simplex Viral infections, we will also discuss rates of both in the healthy infants and in special populations (premature or small for gestational age infants). Finally we will close the session with a panel discussion with highlighting potential healthcare delivery changes and quality improvement initiatives to addresses these issues. We hope the audience members are able to bring this information back to their home institutions in implement change.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify consequences of routine temperature measurements and discuss variation in care for hypothermic infants in the clinic and emergency department.
  • Compare rates of serious bacterial infections and invasive herpes simplex virus infections for healthy infants with hypothermia to those with fever.
  • Explore potential health care delivery changes and quality improvement initiatives to improve the care of infants presenting with hypothermia.

Presentations:

  • 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM ET
    Variation in normal temperatures and consequences of routine temperature measurements at well child checks.

    SIG Speaker: Rebecca Dang, MD/MSEpi (she/her/hers) – Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford

  • 11:20 AM – 11:45 AM ET
    Variation in care for hypothermic infants

    SIG Speaker: Andrea T. Cruz, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Baylor College of Medicine

    SIG Speaker: Monica Combs, MD – Boston Children's Hospital

  • 11:45 AM – 12:05 PM ET
    Rates of serious bacterial infection and herpes simplex virus infection in hypothermic infants

    SIG Speaker: Sriram Ramgopal, MD (he/him/his) – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

  • 12:05 PM – 12:30 PM ET
    Panel discussion highlighting: potential Healthcare delivery change and quality improvement initiatives