Supporting occupational therapy outcomes for children and young people with cerebral palsy: key considerations for impactful outcomes
This article seeks to support understanding of how occupational therapy practice fits into the ICF framework and to demonstrate the need to address all ICF domains. (Source: Paediatrics and Child Health)
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Christopher Colborne Tags: Symposium: special educational needs and disability Source Type: research
The experience of children with disabilities and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic: what lessons can we learn?
COVID-19 has had serious, negative impacts on children's health and development. But the impacts have not been felt equally. Disabled children and their families have been hit particularly hard. In this paper we summarize UK legislation to limit the spread of the virus and describe how services to disabled children changed as a result. We discuss the long-term deleterious impacts of changes in service provision on the health and wellbeing of disabled children and the parent carers supporting them. (Source: Paediatrics and Child Health)
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Lindsay Pennington, Hannah Merrick, Amanda Allard, Christopher Morris, Jeremy R. Parr, Resetting Services Group Tags: Symposium: special educational needs and disability Source Type: research
Empowering young people with additional needs to prepare for adulthood: an occupational therapist's view
A smooth and coordinated handover to adult health services for young people with additional needs is important. Yet equally as important is preparing the young person for self-management of their health care and independence. A central goal of occupational therapy is to empower young people to lead a meaningful life, as independently as possible. Occupational therapists (OTs) therefore have an important role to play in helping young people with additional needs to prepare for their adult lives. However this article outlines suggestions, signposting and strategies that all professionals could consider which will empower you...
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Victoria King, Erin Killaspy, Rebecca Perks Tags: Symposium: special educational needs and disability Source Type: research
The role of the health visitor: where are we now?
Health visiting has been described as the backbone of early years services across the UK and the safety net around all families. This paper explores the role of health visitors and the current context in England. Health visitors lead and deliver the Healthy Child Programme which is the national preventative public health programme covering pregnancy and the first five y ears of life. It aims to ensure that every child has the best start in life, regardless of where they live. With child health deteriorating, more children falling behind with their development, growing concerns about invisible vulnerable children, wide...
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Alison Morton Tags: Occasional review Source Type: research
Meeting speech, language and communication needs: a whole-systems, population-based approach
This article sets out the case for taking a population-health based approach to anticipating need and building whole systems around children in their functional contexts, whether home, early years setting, school or further education. The demand on services providing speech and lang uage therapy continues to increase year on year. Using a population-health approach to predicting areas of higher anticipated SLCN and establishing robust collaborative approaches to improving the context for children and young people vulnerable to SLCN, there is the potential to address a significa nt number needs within everyday contexts. (So...
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - April 23, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Marie Gascoigne Tags: Symposium: special educational needs and disability Source Type: research
The paediatric research environment in the UK: key wins and needs
The evolution of paediatric care in the UK is a compelling journey that reflects medical progress and a profound commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of children. Paediatric medicine has undergone significant transformations, from a nascent field with limited understanding to a dynamic and multidisciplinary domain focused on specialized care and groundbreaking research. This review aims to summarize the major advancements in the various paediatric specialties in the UK. As paediatric care evolved, the emergence of paediatric subspecialties became increasingly prevalent. (Source: Paediatrics and Child Health)
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - April 22, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Carmen Ho, Alastair G. Sutcliffe Tags: Occasional review Source Type: research
A practical approach to the diagnosis and management of chronic urticaria
Urticaria commonly occurs in childhood, affecting up to 15% of British children. It is characterized by the sudden onset of wheals, angioedema, or both. Episodes are usually acute, often triggered by viral infections or antibiotics, with approximately a third progressing to chronic or recurrent urticaria. This review focuses on chronic urticaria subtypes, diagnosis and treatment options for children. The diagnosis is usually made clinically, and a focused history is key. Detailed investigation is usually unnecessary. (Source: Paediatrics and Child Health)
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Katherine Fawbert, Susan Leech Tags: Symposium: allergy Source Type: research
Allergen immunotherapy in the UK: what's new?
Allergen immunotherapy, also called desensitisation, is a strategic process by which the immune system is gradually “trained” to tolerate increasing amounts of an allergen, which it previously would have reacted to. In the UK, it is estimated that approximately 20% of the population suffers with at least one allergic disease. The potential to modify the disease process is no longer out of our reach for certai n allergies, with the hope of improved quality of life. Immunotherapy can be offered as a treatment for IgE mediated allergic disease such as allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, immediate type food allergies, bee and wa...
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - March 30, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Anjali Rampersad, Fahad Siddiqui, Melvin Lee Qiyu, Donna Traves, Nick Makwana Tags: Symposium: allergy Source Type: research
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Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Food-protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome: the ‘anaphylaxis’ of non-IgE-mediated food allergy
FPIES (food-protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome) is a severe, non-IgE-mediated allergic reaction. Its hallmark is the onset of acute vomiting one to four hours post ingestion of a trigger food. Reactions can result in such significant hypovolaemia as to be end organ or life threatening and require prompt recognition and fluid support. FPIES is a disorder of infancy, and recent BPSU survey data suggests it is still under-recognized within the UK. Its presentation can mimic other more common conditions, such as sepsis and gastroenteritis, leading to under-recognition and diagnostic delay. (Source: Paediatrics and Child Health)
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - March 20, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Gary Stiefel, Cherry Alviani, Mich Erlewyn-Lajeunesse Tags: Symposium: allergy Source Type: research
Neurodisability and risk of hypopituitarism: to screen or not to screen?
Children with neurodisabilities are a very diverse group. Endocrine dysfunction is not always anticipated but screening for potential risk of developing hypopituitarism is important in clinical practice. Hypopituitarism in children with neurodisability can be part of an underlying congenital syndrome or acquired. Diagnosis of hypopituitarism on clinical grounds is challenging in some cases. Accurate growth monitoring is more difficult in this group due to orthopaedic factors, such as spasticity, spinal deformities such as scoliosis or joint contractures. (Source: Paediatrics and Child Health)
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - March 17, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Theodora Papanikolaou, Jeremy Kirk, Zainaba Mohamed Tags: Occasional review Source Type: research
Self-assessment
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Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Clare Leung, Charlotte McCallum, Rebecca Price, Natalie Bee Tags: Self-assessment Source Type: research
Neonatal anaemia
This article provides an overview of the more important aspects of neonatal anaemia. (Source: Paediatrics and Child Health)
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - February 28, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tanoj Gopalan Kollamparambil, Will Carroll, Divianath Kuttiyat Rayaroth Tags: Symposium: neonatology Source Type: research
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Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - February 27, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
The long-term indirect impact of Covid-19 on child health
The Covid-19 pandemic created unprecedented circumstances around the world. From the beginning of the pandemic, it became apparent that the direct and acute effects of the infection had a greater impact on the adult population and therefore skewed the care and services available towards adult medicine. Due to the strict social distancing rules enforced, which included school closure, a state of isolation for the young was created. In September 2020 we published a report that suggested the indirect impacts of the pandemic on children which were based on evidence from previous pandemics and small Covid-19 case studies as a m...
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - February 24, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Loucia Ashikkali, Andrew John Robertson Seggie, Christine Johnson Tags: Occasional review Source Type: research
