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 202014 Sep 2023 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…
Immunological Disorders… Periodic Fever Aphthous Stomatitis Pharyngitis Adenitis – PFAPA Syndrome: Part 1 31 May 202031 May 2020 PFAPA is a common autoinflammatory syndrome in childhood. The onset is usually before 5 years of age and attacks typically cease by 10 years of age in most patients, though a minority…
VACCINATIONS… Vaccination in immunocompromised children: Part 2 28 May 202022 May 2020 There may be certain situations where even immunocompromised need to be given vaccines, even if a suboptimal immune response is expected… Mammalian bites & Rabies Thorough wound management and antisepsis…
VACCINATIONS… Vaccination in immunocompromised children: Part 1 24 May 202024 May 2020 IAP has guidelines for vaccination of children in situations, where a child is considered to be immunocompromised and an appropriate immune response to a vaccine is not mounted. These scenarios…
BONE AND JOINT DISORDERS… Scoliosis- What a pediatrician should know 21 May 202020 May 2020 Scoliosis of greater than 10 degrees is relatively common (incidence 1-2%), but progression to ≥ 25 degrees and the need for treatment is rare.Examination findings of uneven shoulders/Scapulae level, Rib Hump, Uneven…
IAP VACCINE GUIDELINES… IAP VACCINE GUIDELINES BOOKLET 2018-2019 with corrections 20 May 202020 May 2020 CLICK the LINK to Download the booklet released with corrections in May 2020. List of corrections is added in the END of booklet
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