Pat Tom Jonathan Holt Snelling Carapetis AM PG T JR PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS ...

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Australian infants who received whole-cell pertussis vaccines were less likely to be diagnosed with food allergy in childhood ...

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• 2020
• June 2020

The school holidays are fast approaching, which only means one thing – the Telethon Kids Discovery Centre school holiday workshops are back with an exciting program of fun and educational workshops for kids! ...

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• 2021
• March

Four Telethon Kids Institute researchers have received prestigious fellowships and four significant cohort studies led or co-led by Telethon Kids have received key grants under two new funding programs supported by the State Government’s Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund. ...

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• 2023
• November

Pat Prue Holt Hart PG PH PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA BSc (Hons) MSc PhD Emeritus Honorary Researcher Head, Inflammation Patrick.Holt@ ...

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Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg BRVUS MD, PhD, DEAA, FANZA Chair of Paediatric anaesthesia, University of Western Australia; Consultant Paediatric ...

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• 2023
• December 2023

Fasting for surgery is a routine step in the preoperative preparation for surgery. There have however been increasing concerns with regard to the high incidence of prolonged fasting in children, and the subsequent psycho-social distress and physiological consequences that this poses. ...

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• 2023
• August 2023

Patients with adrenal insufficiency are at risk of adrenal crisis, a potentially life-threatening emergency in the peri-operative period due to their attenuated ability to mount a cortisol response. ...

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• 2021
• July 2021

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) increases the risk of perioperative adverse events in children. While polysomnography (PSG) remains the reference standard for OSA diagnosis, oximetry is a valuable screening tool. The traditional practice is the manual analysis of desaturation clusters derived from a tabletop device using the McGill oximetry score. However, automated analysis of wearable oximetry data can be an alternative. This study investigated the accuracy of wrist-worn oximetry with automated analysis as a preoperative OSA screening tool. ...

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• 2023
• August 2023

Anya Deborah Pat Jones Strickland Holt AJ DH PG BSc MSc PhD PhD PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA Honorary Research Associate Program Head, Immunobiology ...

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