RT Book, Section
A1 Glader, Laurie
A1 Mauskar, Sangeeta
A1 Hall, David E.
A2 Zaoutis, Lisa B.
A2 Chiang, Vincent W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1146124635
T1 Managing Comorbidities in Children with Severe Neurologic Impairment
T2 Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071829281
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146124635
RD 2024/04/19
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.