WEATHER ALERT
Nicklaus Childrenโs Hospital sets up unit to treat multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C)
Read full article: Nicklaus Childrenโs Hospital sets up unit to treat multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C)MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. โ Nicklaus Childrenโs Hospital has announced a specialized unit for the treatment of children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), a disorder that is affecting young people during the coronavirus pandemic. โPart of this is we donโt have a lot of information,โ said Michael Leoncio, a pediatric ICU physician at Nicklaus Childrenโs Hospital. โWe are seeing cases, luckily theyโre few theyโre rare and most of them are doing well.โNicklaus Childrenโs Hospital says its MIS-C pod includes special barriers to prevent cross-contamination. A look inside @Nicklaus4Kids new Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome unit within the PICU. Love, president and CEO of Nicklaus Childrenโs Health System, the hospitalโs parent organization.
Pediatricians sound alarm on coronavirus-related illness affecting kids in South Florida
Read full article: Pediatricians sound alarm on coronavirus-related illness affecting kids in South FloridaDoctors at Holtz Childrenโs Hospital in Allappattah, at Nicklaus Childrenโs Hospital near Coral Gables and at Joe DiMaggio Childrenโs Hospital in Hollywood are sounding the alarm. The pediatricians believe MIS-C is a spectrum of disorders defined by how some childrenโs immune systems are responding to the coronavirus. According to Jennifer Piedra, a spokeswoman for the Jackson Health System, Holtz Childrenโs Hospital has two confirmed cases of the rare and treatable disease. Before pediatricians identified the pattern, some children were initially misdiagnosed as Kawasaki disease cases. โThe gastrointestinal symptoms are more than in Kawasaki, they get significant abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea -- which usually is not as prominent in Kawasaki," Laufer said.