CHOC Pediatrica
News and Information for Pediatric Healthcare Professionals
The commitment and dedication of CHOC clinicians will ensure happy holidays for many families – including the McLeods. This will be the first holiday season for the new family of four, only recently reunited at home following son Ryan’s 17-week stay in CHOC Small Baby Unit (SBU). Ryan was born this past winter at just […]
By: M. Tuan Tran, infectious disease pharmacist at CHOC, and Dr. Negar Ashouri, infectious disease specialist at CHOC With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Joint Commission set to require the adoption of core elements of antimicrobial stewardship in 2017, CHOC will continue to uphold the appropriate use of antimicrobial agents […]
As Thanksgiving approaches, CHOC physicians explain what they’ll consider when giving thanks this holiday. “CHOC has provided me with lifelong blessings. I am grateful to have grown up at and with this hospital, from the initial CHOC Tower to the current Bill Holmes Tower, through pediatric residency training and beyond. To now be a member of such a remarkable team of […]
Asthma is among the illnesses CHOC is focusing on as a component of its population health initiative. (Other acute care conditions of focus include: bronchiolitis, community acquired pneumonia, acute gastroenteritis, headache and acne.) As a prevalent health care problem in Southern California, asthma results in emergency (ED) visits, hospital admissions, school days missed and administration […]
An advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently recommended that the nasal spray influenza vaccine not be used this upcoming flu season. In this Q&A, Dr. Jasjit Singh, medical director of infection prevention and control at CHOC, offers an explanation for your patients and their families. Q: What does this […]
CHOC wants its reffering physicians to get to know its specialists. Today, meet Dr. Mary Jane Piroutek, a pediatric emergency medicine specialist. What is your education and training? I graduated from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. I completed my pediatric residency at CHOC and my pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Loma Linda […]
