Pediatric intervention

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Pediatric interventions differ from adult interventions in several ways both the setting and the equipment must be adapted to infants and children. The disease processes and the indications for treatment are clearly distinct in this age group. 

CD occurs in approximately 4.56 per 100,000 pediatric patients, and UC occurs in about 2.14 cases per 100,000.43 A major issue in children with IBD is the risk of growth failure secondary to inadequate nutritional intake. Failure to thrive may be an initial presentation of IBD in this population. Aggressive nutritional interventions may be required to facilitate adequate caloric intake. Chronic corticosteroid therapy may also be associated with reductions in growth. 

Baskin, M. L., H. K. Ahluwalia, and K. Resnicow. Obesity Intervention Among African-American Children and Adolescents. Pediatric Clinics of North America 48(4) (2001) 1027-1039. 

For nausea and vomiting associated with pediatric gastroenteritis, there is greater emphasis on rehydration measures than on pharmacologic intervention. 

The irony is that early and effective treatment intervention in a disease process often lessens its long-term sequelae. Unrecognized or ineffectively treated childhood and adolescent psychiatric conditions are likely to have profound and lifelong effects on the patient s psychosocial development. They can interfere with the development of self-esteem, with family and peer relationships, with school performance, and, later, in the workplace. The consequences are likely to persist even after the resolution of the acute episode, profoundly affecting further psychosocial adjustment ( 30). Inadequate treatment of pediatric psychiatric disorders may lead to... 

Therapy for sickle cell disease has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s. Prior to the 1980s therapeutic interventions for sickle cell disease consisted of supportive care during acute illness, opioids for pain management, and occasional transfusions for severe anemia or life-threatening complications. At that time, sickle cell disease was considered a pediatric disease as there were few children who survived into adulthood. In 1986, the Penicillin Prophylaxis Study was conducted, providing evidence that early intervention with penicillin prevented... 

Frank DA, Jacobs RR, Beeghly M, Augustyn M, Bellinger D, Cabral H, Heeren T. Level of prenatal cocaine exposure and scores on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development modifying effects of caregiver, early intervention, and birth weight. Pediatrics 2002 110(6) 1143-52. 

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