If you love kids and enjoy taking care of their needs, becoming a pediatrician is the right career choice for you. Pediatrics is a medical specialty that deals with the physical, emotional and social health of children.
Pediatricians are doctors who provide medical treatment to children from birth to early adulthood. Benjamin Spock is the most trusted name in child care today, as well as being the most famous pediatrician worldwide.
His reassuring and commonsense advice has shaped parenting practices for over half a century. With few exceptions, patients 18 years and older should be admitted to an adult service and patients less than 18 years should be admitted to a pediatric service.
Pediatric nurses may experience stress at a higher level than other nurses; in addition to caring for the pediatric patient, they care for and comfort the family members of the child. In a small practice you may need to perform this process once per week.
The machine and containers are a one-time purchase, and a practice usually orders the plastic discs 2 to 3 times per year. It facilitates diagnosis of ADHD by having parents and teachers fill out online Vanderbilt forms that are scored automatically. Consequently, evaluations are completed in just a few days rather than weeks or months. It also facilitates e-mail communication with parents and teachers.
One simply goes to mehealth. In addition to free access, users benefit by receiving 20 category 4 Maintenance of Certification MOC credits for using the tool.
The tool now integrates a medication choice decision aid, and a management tool for parents and teachers that enables selection of daily and weekly rewards for achieving behavioral goals. Bionix Toledo, Ohio has been marketing cerumen removal products since , and most pediatricians use its curettes and cerumen spoons routinely.
The AquaBot system provides a continuous stream of water to facilitate cerumen removal when used with OtoClear irrigation tips. Bionix is also marketing the After-Swim water removal system for consumers-sculpted handheld sponges that help remove water from the ear canal to prevent otitis externa.
Pediatricians are extremely facile with otoscopy but sometimes children squirm making visualization of the ear canal difficult, and even small amounts of cerumen can obscure our view of the tympanic membrane. It can be used with otoscope handles from Welch Allyn and Heine, both battery and wall mounted. The device features a 1-mm x 1-mm camera with a permanent antifog coating, a degree field of view, and an auto exposure and focus capability between 3.
This means you can navigate around cerumen in the ear canal and get an extremely clear image of the canal and tympanic membrane. One can switch easily between video and picture mode, and images or videos can be captured with a click of a button. In my limited experience with the Wispr, parents and patients are very impressed with the captured images and videos. The first patient I examined with the Wispr had a previously undiagnosed tympanic membrane perforation, resulting from a tympanostomy tube placed years ago!
The device has 64 GB of memory, sufficient for 30 minutes of video at 15 frames per second. It includes a USB port so images or videos can be written to a thumb drive, which can then be used to transfer files to a computer for inclusion in the EHR.
The device is fun to use, and I believe most pediatricians will be tempted to replace their traditional otoscope with the Wispr. It should be available by the time you read this. Manufacturers produce pediatric equipment just for use with young patients. Infant scales have curved sides to prevent babies from falling while they are being weighed.
Smaller blood pressure cuffs make it possible to take blood pressure in young patients. Pediatric surgical kits contain smaller versions of forceps, scalpels, scissors, clamps and tubes.
Orthopedic surgeons who work with pediatric patients have access to child-sized braces, walkers, crutches and other ambulatory equipment.
Manufacturers also produce equipment designed to make children more comfortable during exams and medical procedures. Exam tables and other types of equipment come in whimsical designs that make visiting the pediatrician a little less scary.
Small needles cause less discomfort than the larger ones used for adult patients. Some pediatricians also use shot-blocking devices, which consist of a flexible plastic disk that has several blunt projections on the bottom. When pressed against the skin, the blunt projections saturate the patient's sensory signals, distracting the child from the pain signals produced when the needle penetrates the skin. Leigh Ann Morgan began working as a writer in Morgan also appeared as a guest on an episode of National Public Radio's "Marketplace Money" in What Equipment Do Pediatricians Use?
By Leigh Ann Morgan.
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