Introduction: Child abuse has been defined as allowing others to cause physical, emotional, and sexual harm, and also physical and emotional pain to a child. The present study was a report on a case of physical and sexual child abuse accompanied by traumatic brain injury (TBI) referred to an emergency department.Case Presentation: A 4-year-old child was rushed into an emergency department...

BACKGROUND Neonatology is a rapidly growing paediatric sub-specialty all over the world. Neonatal disease pattern changes from time to time and place. Analyzing the neonatal admission pattern helps the policy makers to make the better strategies and health care givers to serve better. METHOD This was a descriptive study. The study data was collected of the patient admitted in neonatal unit of...

Context Facility Based Newborn Care (FBNC) is a key strategy to improve child survival, especially in newborn care where neonatal mortality rate (NMR) is stagnant in declining. Gujarat has achieved considerable amount of reduction in child deaths, but neonatal health requires attention. The study was aimed to assess the admission pattern of Special Newborn Care Units (SNCUs) which supports deci...

The morbidity pattern, based on hospital admissions for a complete year's cohort of all children born in Sheffield 1975-6, was studied. In many children the diagnosis given on admission had changed by the time they were discharged from hospital. About one-quarter of children under age 6 months were admitted for social reasons. Despite a decreasing birth rate the admission rate had increased, wi...

Non-traumatic coma in childhood is an important pediatric emergency. It can result from a wide range of primary etiologies. Objective: To study the etiology and clinical profile of pediatric non-traumatic coma and to determine the clinical signs predictive of outcome. Setting: Pediatric emergency department (PED) at a tertiary care university teaching pediatric hospital from September 2007 to J...

BACKGROUND Although malaria is known to be a major cause of child mortality and morbidity throughout sub-Saharan Africa there are few detailed studies of malaria mortality rates and incidence of severe malarial disease in defined communities. We have studied the geographical pattern of admissions to hospital with severe malaria and the stability of this pattern over time in Kilifi District on t...

Figure 1. Electrocardiogram recorded 14 hours after admission. See text for explication. An earlier electrocardiogram recorded immediately after admission had a sinus rate of 92 beats/min and Wolff-Parkinson-White type preexcitation on all beats. A 57-year-old woman with a history of high blood pressure and dyslipidemia presented to the emergency department with chest pain, palpitations, dyspne...

BACKGROUND Singleness and unemployment increase the risk of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia subsequently increases the risk of singleness and unemployment. OBJECTIVE To describe long-term changes in marital status and labor market affiliation before and after the first admission with schizophrenia. DESIGN A case-control study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The sample included 5341 patients with a...