NEONATAL RESUSCITATION PROGRAM NRP… Neonatal Resuscitation in COVID Times 28 Jun 202027 Jun 2020 COVID pandemic is going to stay for a while now and now all medical community is geared to handle it. This also, brings challenges to our colleagues or neonatologists, who…
Dermatitis… Perioral dermatitis 25 Jun 202029 Jun 2020 Perioral dermatitis in children typically presents as multiple small flesh-colored or erythematous inflamed papules or micronodules around the mouth, nose and eyes. The age ranges from 7 months to 13…
Foreign Body Aspiration… Foreign body Aspiration in children 21 Jun 202020 Jun 2020 We all have encountered clinical scenarios of classical presentation of a toddler coming after some foreign body aspiration. But clinical dilemma arises when we do not get a classical history…
Cognitive Behaviour therapy CBT… Psychosomatic disorders in children & Cognitive Behaviour Therapy-CBT 18 Jun 202015 Jun 2020 Psychosomatic disorders consist of clinical symptoms with no underlying organic pathology. Most common symptoms observed in children are abdominal pain, headaches, difficulty in breathing, chest pain, fatigue, excessive worry about health. Most symptoms…
Respiratory Distress Syndrome… Surfactant Replacement Therapy 14 Jun 202014 Jun 2020 Dera Readers, Dr Kumar Ankur, Neonatologist, has nicely sumed up the current practice guidelines on use of Surfactant in neonatology. Please click below to view the video presentation https://youtu.be/i2ZkFi-dxEQ
INFECTIOUS DISEASES… How long a COVID positive case can be infective? 11 Jun 202010 Jun 2020 To address this not so easy question we need to first understand the concept of Cycle Threshold (CT) in RT-PCR for COVID CT is the number of replication cycles required…
Adoption… ADOPTION, FOSTER CARE AND KINSHIP CARE 7 Jun 2020 Adoption is act of lawfully assuming the parental rights and responsibilities of a child under the age of 18 irrevocably. Adopted children become full members of their adopted family and have the…
Immunological Disorders… Periodic Fever Aphthous Stomatitis Pharyngitis Adenitis Syndrome PFAPA Part 2 4 Jun 202031 May 2020 Continued from previous post…(Clinical Symptoms & Diagnosis click to read) WHEN IT IS NOT PFAPA Patients should be evaluated for the following features since the presence of any of them…
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