Comparison of Full Outline of Unresponsiveness Score and Glasgow Coma Scale for Assessment of Consciousness in Children With Acute Encephalitis Syndrome.

Objective: To correlate the Full outline of unresponsiveness (FOUR) score and Glasgow coma scale (GCS) in the assessment of children with acute encephalitis syndrome (AES).

Methods: This observational study was conducted in the department of pediatrics of a public sector tertiary care center from January, 2019 to March, 2020. All consecutive patients of AES admitted during the study period (n=150) were recruited.

Risk Factors of Delirium in Children in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of delirium and its risk factors among children admitted to a Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

Method: A descriptive study in which consecutive patients admitted to the PICU over a period of 12 months were screened daily for delirium using the Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delirium (CAPD) score. Treatment-related and demographic variables were collected and analyzed.

Relationship of body mass index and other life style factors with hypertension in adolescents.

Background: Over the past two decades, it has been observed that hypertension shows an increasing trend in children and adolescents. Various factors are contributing to this upward trend, and they primarily include changes in lifestyle and dietary habits.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of hypertension in school going adolescent children and to study the associated risk factors.

Multidrug-resistant tubercular liver abscess in β-thalassemia.

Background: Liver abscesses in thalassemics are predominantly pyogenic.

Case Characteristics: 12-year-old thalassemic boy with abdominal pain and high grade fever for 15 days.

Observation: CT abdomen revealed multiple liver abscesses.

Assessment of iron status and red cell parameters in healthy full term small for gestational age neonates at birth.

Background: Hematological values of the newborn babies vary according to the gestational age and intrauterine growth.

Objective: The objective of this study is to compare the iron status and red cell parameters in healthy term small for gestational age (SGA) and appropriate for gestational age (AGA) neonates.

Materials And Methods: A prospective hospital based study was conducted in a tertiary care teaching institution of central India.

Hypoxia as a predisposing factor for the development of early onset neonatal thrombocytopenia.

Background: Thrombocytopenia in hypoxic neonates admitted in NICU is a morbid condition encountered very commonly. Early-onset thrombocytopenia (<72 h) is most commonly associated with fetomaternal conditions complicated by placental insufficiency and/or fetal hypoxia. Chronic intrauterine hypoxia is the most frequent cause of early-onset thrombocytopenia in preterm neonates.

Quality of life in children with epilepsy.

Background: Epilepsy is a chronic medical condition with many co-morbid features. It has been observed that children with epilepsy (CWE) have a compromised quality of life (QOL).

Objective: To assess the QOL in CWE and to study the various factors affecting QOL among CWE.