Author: Markus Schwerzmann Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319311395 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 235
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This book provides medical care givers with detailed information on those aspects of adolescence that are of significance in the setting of congenital heart disease (CHD), from anatomic and physiologic changes to behavioral issues. In addition, it explains how care should be organized in order to ensure that the needs of adolescents with CHD are fully met. Both theoretical and practical aspects of the switch from a pediatric to an adult health perspective in CHD patients are outlined in detail, drawing attention to the importance of a structured transition plan and other best practices. As the survival of children with complex CHD improves further, the number of adolescents with CHD will continue to grow. Awareness of the challenges that these patients face is essential if they are to be appropriately prepared to assume adult roles and functioning. Readers will find Congenital Heart Disease and Adolescence to be an excellent source of relevant knowledge and guidance. It has been written for a broad audience, bearing in mind that care in adolescents is an interdisciplinary task involving close collaboration among physicians, specialists, nurses, patients, and relatives.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 030915698X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 304
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a screening tool called the Listing of Impairments to identify claimants who are so severely impaired that they cannot work at all and thus immediately qualify for benefits. In this report, the IOM makes several recommendations for improving SSA's capacity to determine disability benefits more quickly and efficiently using the Listings.
Author: Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISBN: 9780683307429 Category : Bebeklik ve çocuklukta kalp hastalıkları Languages : en Pages : 802
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Recommended in the Brandon/Hill selected list of print books and journals for the small medical library - April 2003 Updated throughout, the Sixth Edition of Moss and Adams' Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents: Including the Fetus and Young Adult continues to be the primary cardiology text for those who care for infants, children, adolescents, young adults, and fetuses with heart disease. The most comprehensive text in the field, the text covers basic science theory through clinical practice of cardiovascular disease in the young with information being updated to reflect the la.
Author: Douglas Flores Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781979515474 Category : Languages : en Pages : 234
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This book provides medical care givers with detailed information on those aspects of adolescence that are of significance in the setting of congenital heart disease (CHD), from anatomic and physiologic changes to behavioral issues. In addition, it explains how care should be organized in order to ensure that the needs of adolescents with CHD are fully met. Both theoretical and practical aspects of the switch from a pediatric to an adult health perspective in CHD patients are outlined in detail, drawing attention to the importance of a structured transition plan and other best practices. As the survival of children with complex CHD improves further, the number of adolescents with CHD will continue to grow. Awareness of the challenges that these patients face is essential if they are to be appropriately prepared to assume adult roles and functioning.
Author: J. Hess Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9789401580823 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 0
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In May 1990, the First International Symposium on Congenital Heart Disease in Adolescents and Adults was organized in Rotterdam. During these three days' Symposium an overview of the many new problems facing the adult and pediatric cardiologist as well as the cardiac surgeon in this rapidly increasing subgroup of the adolescent and adult cardiac population was given. Chal lenges, controversies, uncertainties and questions were presented and discussed with great enthusiasm. We are greatful that most speakers who participated in this symposium, were willing to write a chapter on their presented topics to be edited in book-form. The final result is here. We hope, it will be of value for both to the adult and pediatric cardiologist and other colleagues, who have to undertake the care of this group of patients, whose management poses such unique problems. J.H. G.S. ix 1. The problem - an overVIew JANE SOMERVILLE The subject of grown-up congenital heart disease is currently and correctly attracting attention in the world. Surgical treatment for congenital heart disease (C.H.D) has evolved through the last 40 years, starting with the attempts by Blalock and Brock to palliate, to the current refined technical virtuoso repairs of the most complex in infancy.
Author: Richard Humes Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323266770 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 265
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Most physicians entering the field of pediatric cardiology are drawn to it by an interest in the wide variety of congenital heart defects which present at various ages. Most congenital heart disease will be evident in early life, presenting with cyanosis, heart murmur, congestive heart failure or shock. Textbooks in pediatric cardiology are filled overwhelmingly with chapters on the various congenital heart lesions which are encountered, both rare and common. However, practicing pediatric cardiologists will be quick to point out that a significant number of referrals to any practice do not involve congenital heart problems. Reviewing our own statistics at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Cardiology Center for the past two years (2010-2012) reveals that outpatient visits for new patient consultations examined by age groups are: less than 1 year of age – 11%; 1-5 years – 23%; 6-10 years – 21%; 11-18 years – 45%. Retrospective data collected from billing codes, as in this brief survey, may imprecise. However, it does provide a snapshot of the usual referral problems encountered by pediatric cardiologists. In our practice, the most common overall reason for referral in all ages was "heart murmur", constituting 26% of total referrals. Second were rhythm and rhythm related problems (inclusive of palpitations, abnormal ECG and diagnosed premature beats) constituted 19% of the total. In the age group of interest for this book of 11-18 years, the most common presenting issues were rhythm related (23%) and chest pain (23%), followed by syncope or dizziness (19%) and heart murmur (12%). Congenital heart disease diagnoses encountered in the 11 to 18 year age group comprised only 6.5% of referrals within that age group. It is likely that many of these were not new diagnoses (with a few exceptions), but rather represented transfers to our practice. Our own outpatient clinical experience reveals that the majority of outpatients referred by pediatricians for pediatric cardiology evaluation are between the ages of 11 and 18. The majority of these new referrals are not for congenital heart disease. Our intent for this edition of Pediatric Clinics of North America is to describe the types of problems which seem to be of concern to the pediatric community within this age group and to describe strategies for evaluation.
Author: Christopher McCusker Publisher: Academic Press ISBN: 0128017929 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 216
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Congenital Heart Disease and Neurodevelopment: Understanding and Improving Outcomes brings together the work of leading researchers from the U.K., Europe, and the U.S. to provide a comprehensive examination of the causes, risks, and neurodevelopmental and psychological outcomes in children with congenital heart disease. The book includes longitudinal studies which have tracked outcomes from birth through late childhood and explores the emergent phenotype and etiologies, risk, and protective factors that strengthen proposed models. Medical and surgical advances have meant that greater numbers of children with even the most severe congenital heart disease (CHD) now survive well into adulthood. Studies over the past 20 years have suggested certain neurodevelopmental and psychological features are common, with clinical interventions being internationally articulated. The U.K. Belfast Center has developed and evaluated unique early intervention programs to circumvent the common problems discerned and promote optimal adjustment and outcomes. The first edition of Congenital Heart Disease and Neurodevelopment: Understanding and Improving Outcomes describes these programs in detail and outlines promising results obtained by researchers worldwide. Such interventions, together with the U.S. consensus statement (Circulation, 2012) on neurodevelopmental screening, hold great promise for clinical interventions. Features input from leading research experts in the field Describes cutting-edge research on longitudinal studies that link neurodevelopmental phenotypes with cutting-edge neuroimaging studies Discusses the first series of early intervention studies developed in Belfast targeted at key developmental transitions—birth and diagnosis, early childhood, and adolescence Includes clinical implications and action points in each section Features generalizable potential of interventions across other pediatric populations
Author: Hayden Austin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 234
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As the survival of youth with complicated CHD improves further, the quantity of kids with CHD will proceed to grow. Awareness of the challenges that these sufferers face is critical if they are to be accurately organized to expect grownup roles and functioning. Readers will locate Congenital Heart Disease and Adolescence to be an brilliant supply of applicable know-how and guidance. It has been written for a vast audience, bearing in thinking that care in kids is an interdisciplinary assignment involving shut collaboration amongst physicians, specialists, nurses, patients, and relatives.This e book affords clinical care givers with exact data on these factors of formative years that are of value in the placing of congenital coronary heart disorder (CHD), from anatomic and physiologic modifications to behavioral issues. In addition, it explains how care ought to be geared up in order to make sure that the desires of teenagers with CHD are entirely met. Both theoretical and realistic components of the change from a pediatric to an grownup fitness standpoint in CHD sufferers are outlined in detail, drawing interest to the significance of a structured transition diagram and different quality practices.
Author: Hugh D. Allen Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISBN: 1496300262 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 4808
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The 9th edition of the gold standard in pediatric cardiology offers up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of this challenging and rapidly changing field. New chapters based on reader requests, two new associate editors, new contributing authors, and an enhanced digital version of the text make Moss and Adams’ Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents the reference you’ll turn to when caring for patients. From cover to cover, this award-winning two-volume resource provides the authoritative, state-of-the-art information you need when caring for young patients with heart disease. New, reader-requested chapters cover Development of Myocardial Structure and Function, Global Challenge of Heart Disease, Impact of Congenital Heart Disease on Other Organ Systems, Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy, Beyond the Cardiac Device, and Transition to Adult Care. All chapters have been updated and revised, including vital new information on genetics and embryo development. Two new associate editors, Drs. Daniel J. Penny and Frank Cetta, offer fresh perspectives in their areas of expertise. Enhanced digital access includes the full text; bonus question and answer sections similar to those on the pediatric cardiology board examination; videos of echoes, angiograms, aortic arch anomalies, open-heart operations, and more; and phonocardiograms with accompanying audio of various heart sounds and murmurs.
Author: Hugh D. Allen Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISBN: 1451171277 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1757
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This 8th Edition of Moss and Adams' Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents: Including the Fetus and Young Adult, provides updated and useful information from leading experts in pediatric cardiology. Added chapters and a companion web site that includes the full text with bonus question and answer sections make this Moss and Adams’ edition a valuable resource for those who care for infants, children, adolescents, young adults, and fetuses with heart disease. Features: · Access to online questions similar to those on the pediatric cardiology board examination to prepare you for certification or recertification · Leading international experts provide state-of-the-art diagnostic and interventional techniques to keep you abreast of the latest advances in treatment of young patients · Chapters on quality of life, quality and safety, pharmacology, and research design add to this well-respected text