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Behavioral characteristics of children with sickle cell disease
Conclusions: Behavioral impacts are highly prevalent in children with SCD. Individuals in socioeconomic classes C2 and D suffered more behavioral impacts than individuals in classes B2 and C1.RESUMO Objetivo: Avaliar aspectos sociodemogr áficos e clínicos de crianças com doença falciforme (DF) e suas características comportamentais. Métodos: Aplicação de entrevista sobre aspectos socioeconômicos e outras condições de saúde e do questionário de capacidades e dificuldades (SDQ) em pais de pacientes de quatro a dez anos com DF, em um ambulatório de referência. Dados clínicos foram obtidos dos prontuários méd...
Source: Revista Paulista de Pediatria - August 13, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research

What Types of Memory Impairments are There in Children?
Discussion Memory is an important part of what distinguishes higher order species from others. Memory also is part of one’s self-identity. Difficulties in short-term memory can make common, everyday tasks difficult for the person experiencing the problem particularly if it recently occurred and the person’s long-term memory is intact. Difficulties with long-term memory can also have problems when language, events or even one’s own identity are affected. For some people the memory loss is temporary but for others, memory impairments are permanent and must be accepted and accommodated as part of the overall...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 30, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

What Are Some Risk Factors for Cerebral Palsy?
Discussion The term, cerebral palsy, or CP has gone through many iterations with the first description in 1861 by W.J. Little who described it as “The condition of spastic rigidity of the limbs of newborn children.” The most recent definition is from Rosenbaun et al. in 2007 which states it is “a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy are often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, perception, cog...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 9, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Assessing parental awareness and attitudes toward leaving children unattended inside locked cars and the risk of vehicular heat strokes
ConclusionConsidering the high temperatures in the Gulf region, the prevalence of vehicular heat stroke secondary to locking children inside vehicles is nontrivial. Awareness programs for parents and caregivers are strongly encouraged.
Source: International Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine - December 6, 2019 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research

Assessing Parental Attitudes and Awareness Toward Leaving Children Unattended Inside Locked Cars and The Risk of Vehicular Heat Strokes
ConclusionConsidering the high temperatures in the Gulf region, the prevalence of vehicular heat stroke secondary to locking children inside vehicles is nontrivial. Awareness programs for parents and caregivers are strongly encouraged.
Source: International Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine - November 28, 2019 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research

Comprehensive Infant Clinic for Sickle Cell Disease: Outcomes and Parental Perspective
Comprehensive care for children with sickle cell disease (SCD) includes penicillin prophylaxis, pneumococcal immunization, hydroxyurea therapy, and transcranial Doppler screening for stroke prevention. Along with caregiver education, these strategies have been shown to be effective in reducing early morbidity and mortality in this population. The subspecialty Infant Sickle Cell Clinic was initiated to improve access, education, patient outcomes, and family satisfaction.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Health Care - July 4, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Brenda M. Martin, Lisa N. Thaniel, Barbara J. Speller-Brown, Deepika S. Darbari Tags: Article Source Type: research

Dealing with a diagnosis of epilepsy: Common questions from parents
A diagnosis of epilepsy can seem overwhelming: You likely have a lot of questions about how seizures — and their treatment — will affect your child’s life and what that might mean for your family. That’s why education is crucial for helping ensure that you understand as much as possible about the condition. Events such as the Fifth Annual Epilepsy Awareness Day at Disneyland are wonderful opportunities to learn from experts and from other families. Here, Dr. Arnold Sansevere of the Epilepsy Center at Boston Children’s Hospital answers five common questions from parents and kids. What causes seizures? A. Seizure...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - November 2, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Jessica Cerretani Tags: Ask the Expert Diseases & Conditions Dr. Arnold Sansevere epilepsy epilepsy center seizures Source Type: news

Superhero Joey: Five-year-old fights moyamoya disease
It’s been said that not all heroes wear capes — but Joey Gallagher owns several. The five-year-old has already amassed a collection of superhero gear, from a Superman Halloween costume to a t-shirt emblazoned with the Batman logo. Yet even the most diehard comic book fan would likely admit that feats like flying, leaping tall buildings and fighting bad guys don’t hold a candle to the challenges this little boy has already surmounted. Just last June, Joey was out of town with his family when he had what his parents, Leila and Scott, feared was a seizure. Clinicians in the emergency department dismissed the event as he...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - April 4, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Jessica Cerretani Tags: Diseases & Conditions Our Patients’ Stories childhood stroke Dr. Edward Smith Dr. Michael Scott moyamoya Moyamoya Disease Program Source Type: news

First a birthmark, then a rare disease diagnosis
Brielle plays near her home in Rhode Island. Two-year-old Brielle Coutu loves listening to music, dancing and eating enough cheese that her mother, Heather, often wonders aloud, “Are you a mouse?” Brielle loves to play outside and is usually a chatty, happy-go-lucky little girl. But, sometimes, she can be overwhelmed by the excitement of gathering with family and friends. “We think she has some sensory sensitivities related to her Sturge-Weber syndrome,” says Heather. Brielle was born with what’s known as a port-wine birthmark on her face. It is aptly named for its dark reddish color. Port-wine birthmarks can ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - March 1, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Kat J. McAlpine Tags: Diseases & Conditions Our Patients’ Stories Dr. Anna Pinto epilepsy neurology rare disease seizures Sturge-Weber syndrome Sturge-Weber Syndrome Clinic Source Type: news

What Causes Hyperammonemia?
Discussion Reye’s syndrome (RS)is named for Dr. Douglas Reye who along with Drs. G. Morgan and J. Baral described encephalopathy and fatty accumulation and degeneration in children in a 1963 Lancet article. RS usually affects children but can occur at all ages. All organs can be affected but the liver and brain are primarily affected causing liver failure and encephalopathy as toxic metabolites (especially ammonia) accumulate, and intracranial hypertension and cerebral edema occurs. As the ammonia levels begin to rise (> 100 mg/dL) patients lose their appetite, have nausea and emesis and mental status changes whic...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - February 20, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Public health for paediatricians: population screening
Introduction The concept of population screening—proactive identification of a condition, disease or predisease state in individuals who presume themselves to be healthy but may benefit from early treatment—is a simple one. The translation of this into a screening programme often raises ethical, conceptual and practical challenges. For clinicians used to dealing with patients symptomatically, there are several key differences to understand between treating patients symptomatically compared with the approach to supporting the delivery of a screening programme. There is a range of definitions of screening, which ...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice - November 17, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Streetly, A., Madden, V. Tags: Drugs: CNS (not psychiatric), Stroke, Hypertension, Pregnancy, Reproductive medicine, Child health, Neonatal health, Screening (epidemiology), Health promotion, Screening (public health) Source Type: research

Stroke in Neonates and Children
Source: Pediatrics in Review - October 31, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Bernson-Leung, M. E., Rivkin, M. J. Tags: Medical Education, Journal CME, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Fetus/Newborn Infant, Neurology Articles Source Type: research

Using animal models to improve care of neonatal encephalopathy
Introduction Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) is responsible for a significant burden of disability and death worldwide.1 The use of animal models in the study of perinatal hypoxia-ischaemia (HI) has a history of over 200 years; studies initially showed that the premature animal is more tolerant of asphyxia than a term animal, which is in turn more resistant to asphyxia than an adult.2 3 In the 1950s to the 1970s, studies in the primate model showed that the pattern of brain injury was clearly influenced by the severity and type of HI; these studies led to a description of two patterns of injury, namely acute total asphyx...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice - September 19, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Lingam, I., Avdic-Belltheus, A., Robertson, N. J. Tags: Clinical trials (epidemiology), Neurological injury, Stroke, Child health, Neonatal and paediatric intensive care, Neonatal health, Experiments in vivo, Trauma, Injury Research in practice Source Type: research

Fatal heat stroke in children found in parked cars: autopsy findings
Conclusion: Typical autopsy findings following classical heat stroke in children include diffuse petechiae and hemorrhages and lung involvement. These findings are similar to those reported in adults that had died following exertional heat stroke—a very different mechanism of heat accumulation. Prevention of future events can possibly be obtained by public education on the rapid heating of closed vehicles, the vulnerability of children to heat, and the caregiver role in child entrapment. What is Known: ...
Source: European Journal of Pediatrics - July 19, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research

Highlights from this issue
I often find myself concentrating on the Best Practice/Fifteen Minute Consultation style papers in this Epistle, and then feeling a little guilty about it because this is the section I edit myself, so I'm drawn to the papers as I already know them well. This month I can feel less guilty, but more pleasure than usual, as I've had help with a couple. We've all experienced that situation when someone discovers we're a healthcare professional and takes this as a cue to share something astoundingly intimate. I think that the trickiest occasion this happened to me was at a wedding, just before the speeches. The only upside was t...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice - May 17, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Wacogne, I. Tags: Stomach and duodenum, Epistle, Stroke, Child health, Screening (epidemiology), Medical humanities, Screening (public health) Source Type: research

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