Child Neurology (Neurocritical Care/Neuro Trauma)

Emerging subspecialties in neurology: neurocritical care.

Asma Zakaria, MD J. Javier Provencio, MD George A. Lopez, MD, PhD Historically, neurology has been a primarily outpatient specialty.1 The advent of modern neurosurgical techniques, as well as more elegant means of artificial ventilation in the 1960s, brought increasing numbers of neurologic patients to the intensive care units (ICU). Although these patients were primarily managed by medical and...

The Journal of Child Neurology and child neurology: growing together.

as a formal discipline, 15 years since the first American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology certifications in child neurology, and just over 10 years since the founding of the Child Neurology Society. n2 Through that quarter century our fledgling specialty had spoken only when permitted by the sufferance of its neurologic parents and older siblings. The Child Neurology Society had become affili...

Child neurology in Africa.

The World Health Organization estimates that children in low-income countries are 16 times more likely to die before approximately 5 years of age than children in highincome countries (http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/ 82058/1/WHO_HIS_HSI_13.1_eng.pdf). Almost 75% of childhood deaths are caused by just 6 conditions: neonatal causes (preterm birth, asphyxia, and infections), pneumonia, d...

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

The first studies about the use of taping to improve motor functions in children needing neurorehabilitation were published 8 years ago and reported conflicting results. In a study of improving outcomes of physical therapy, Footer et al. did not find any significant improvement in seated postural control in children with quadriplegic cerebral palsy (CP) when therapeutic taping was applied for 1...

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