Unlicensed and off-label medication use in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units: no change over a decade

H Nir-Neuman, I Abu-Kishk, M Toledano, E Heyman… - Advances in …, 2018 - Springer
Introduction Many of the medications prescribed to children are off-label and/or unlicensed
because pharmacologic evaluations have not been performed in this age group. Methods All …

Risk factors affecting the immediate postoperative course in pediatric scoliosis surgery

R Hod-Feins, I Abu-Kishk, G Eshel, Y Barr, Y Anekstein… - Spine, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. A retrospective analysis of pediatric records of idiopathic scoliosis (IS) and
neuromuscular scoliosis (NMS) etiology, in a search for complications and their risk factors …

The interaction effect between gender and profession in posttraumatic growth among hospital personnel

…, H Bibi, M Swarka, R Gelernter, I Abu-Kishk - Primary Health Care …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Aim:To explore if there is an interaction effect between gender (men and women) and profession
(nurses and physicians) in posttraumatic growth (PTG).Background:PTG is defined as a …

Hyperpyrexia and high fever as a predictor for serious bacterial infection (SBI) in children—a systematic review

N Rosenfeld-Yehoshua, S Barkan, I Abu-Kishk… - European journal of …, 2018 - Springer
It is not clear if children with high fever are at increased risk for serious bacterial infection (SBI).
Our aim was to systematically review if children suffering from high fever are at high risk …

Thiamine deficiency in infants: MR findings in the brain

…, R Straussberg, E Nahum, AK Ibrahim… - American journal …, 2005 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Thiamine deficiency is extremely rare in infants in developed
countries. To our knowledge, its MR findings in the brain have not been reported. The …

[HTML][HTML] Medical cannabis for the treatment of comorbid symptoms in children with autism spectrum disorder: An interim analysis of biochemical safety

O Stolar, A Hazan, RE Vissoker, IA Kishk… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background: Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder
and no effective treatment for the core symptoms is currently available. The present study is …

Blunt pancreatic trauma in children

B Klin, I Abu-Kishk, I Jeroukhimov, Y Efrati, E Kozer… - Surgery today, 2011 - Springer
Purpose To report our experience with blunt pancreatic trauma in pediatric patients and
evaluate several various management strategies. Methods Ten children admitted over the last …

[HTML][HTML] Newborn gender as a predictor of neonatal outcome in mixed gender twins born with very low birth weight

B Barzilay, N Shirman, H Bibi, I Abu-Kishk - BMC pediatrics, 2019 - Springer
Background Most studies have revealed that the incidence of morbidity and mortality of preterm
male infants is greater than that of preterm female infants. Recently, conflicting outcomes …

Pediatric scoliosis surgery–is postoperative intensive care unit admission really necessary?

I AbuKishk, E Kozer, R Hod‐Feins… - Pediatric …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Background It is common practice for patients to be admitted to the intensive care unit
following scoliosis surgery, because of the prolonged anesthesia, the need for efficient pain …

Complementary and alternative medicine among hospitalized pediatric patients

…, M Goldman, E Kozer, T Ziv-Baran, I Abu-Kishk - … therapies in medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives To estimate the prevalence and describe the characteristics of complementary
and alternative medicine (CAM) use among hospitalized children, and to discover the …