How to Proceed with Examination of a Child?

The assessment of a child is quite different from that of adults and requires knowledge of normal variations in anatomy and physiology with growth and development. An important part of initial assessment includes triage and recognizing children with emergency signs so that they can be managed at the earliest to prevent death and referred timely to the specialist. After ruling out emergency signs, the children with priority signs require prompt assessment, management and referral to the specialist.

Growing Teratoma Syndrome.

Growing teratoma syndrome, a disease characterized by presence of benign metastasis increasing in size and number after chemotherapy, is infrequent occurrence. Being unfamiliar with the disease entity, many oncologists misinterpret it as disease progression. Though the exact etio-pathognesis of the disease is still unidentified, but clinical characteristics are well defined.

Antimicrobial Stewardship in Pediatrics: An Indian Perspective.

Antimicrobial resistance has become a global menace. As the resistance patterns and numbers are progressively increasing, it has become a major cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients, especially children. Efforts are being put world-over to curb the rising resistance by various means, especially by promoting Antibiotic Stewardship Program.

Life on streets.

Objective: Millions of children leave home in hope of finding a more tolerable life. The study tries to find out the kind of life they lead once out on the streets.

Methods: Cross-sectional study of all street boys admitted to a Child Observation Home in New Delhi during specified 6 months.