Assessment of gestational age can be made postnatally by either Dubowitz Score or New Ballard Scoring system. In sick infants, examination of Anterior lens canpsule…
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Author: Dr. Sujit Kumar Shrestha, MD, Neonatology Fellowship
is an MD in Pediatrics (IOM) and a Fellow in Neonatology (GRIPMER). He often writes his views online as well as share few important topics for medical students, doctors and specially parents. He has shared few of his experiences in Epomedicine which might be worthy of a reading.
Survival without Morbidity Must be the Outcome
When ever we talk about outcomes, we tend to only regard survival as the outcome. “The patient survived, our ICU mortality has come down. We…
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Pediatric OPD is a Challenge : Treating the Child and Meeting Parents expectations
Scenario A concerned mother brings her 3 year child to the Outpatient Clinic; the child has had fever for 1 day, running nose and cough…
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Pediatric History Taking – Structured format and Guide
Identification (ID): Name Age/Date of Birth Sex Informant ( Reliability) Parent’s name, age, address, education, religion Chief Complaints (CC): Symptoms X Duration in Chronological order…
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Studying Pediatrics – Is it easy?
Pediatrics is a domain of medicine that deals with child health, illness and well-being . The word “children” may itself be difficult for many doctors,…
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Catastropic Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Preterm IUGR newborn
A 31 weeks of gestation baby was born through emergency LSCS for Severe maternal hypertension. At birth baby required resuscitation and baby was intubated and…
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The most difficult decision: Doctor’s experience
For the world, medicine might just seem like a great adventure as shown in Star world serials like Gray’s Anatomy, House MD. But, much darker…
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Too many Medical negligence Claims – Where is the fault?
It isn’t a new thing to find the news of medical negligence and extortion, manhandling of health professionals in the newspapers as well as online…
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