Innovation District: Challenging the Diagnostic Criteria for Pediatric Asthma

Challenging the diagnostic criteria for pediatric asthma Anastassios Koumbourlis, M.D., M.P.H, and Geovanny Perez, M.D., recently challenged the use of the term "physician-diagnosed asthma" (PDA) by performing a study that showed that the term was not used consistently among pulmonologists and general pediatricians. Is actigraphy helpful for assessing sleep-wake disorders? In an interview with Neurology Today, Daniel Lewin, Ph.D., offered advice about the American Academy of Sleep Medicine's new guidelines on the use of actigraphy to evaluate sleep disorders and circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders. Studying the impact of later school start times After studying sleep trends in nearly 1,000 seventh and eighth-grade students in 11 middle schools, Daniel Lewin, Ph.D., published a study entitled “Later Start, Longer Sleep: Implications of Middle School Start Times” in the Journal of School Health, which outlines the benefits of delaying school start times. Breakthrough device objectively measures pain Pediatric anesthesiologist Julia C. Finkel, M.D., has developed AlgometRx, a first-of-its-kind handheld device that measures a patient’s pupillary response and provides a diagnostic measurement of pain intensity, pain type and, after treatment is administered, monitors efficacy.

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