TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Managing Comorbidities in Children with Severe Neurologic Impairment A1 - Glader, Laurie A1 - Mauskar, Sangeeta A1 - Hall, David E. A2 - Zaoutis, Lisa B. A2 - Chiang, Vincent W. PY - 2017 T2 - Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e AB - Children with severe neurologic impairment comprise a diverse group from an etiological perspective. Yet despite this diversity, there are predictable commonalities in many of the comorbidities and complications they experience. As an example, a child with a history of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and another with a genetic disorder associated with cerebral dysgenesis each have different reasons for their presentations but will likely have in common issues such as intellectual disability, risk for seizures, risk for oromotor dysfunction and aspiration, gastrointestinal dysmotility, osteopenia. and altered muscle tone. Please see Chapter 180 for a brief introduction to etiology and comorbidities as well as review of management of common acute care issue in this population. The focus of this chapter is on chronic comorbidities. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146124635 ER -