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The British Paediatric Association (BPA) has carried out a national survey of paediatric medical manpower in the hospital and community child health services. The results of the survey relating to England and Wales are presented and compared with Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) manpower statistics. On the basis of the survey findings and current trends in the pattern of paediatric care paediatric manpower requirements over the next 10 years are estimated.
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Pediatria , Criança , Serviços de Saúde da Criança , Coleta de Dados , Inglaterra , Planejamento em Saúde , Mão de Obra em Saúde/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , Corpo Clínico Hospitalar/provisão & distribuição , Reino Unido , País de GalesRESUMO
A male infant with multiple congenital abnormalities and global retardation was found to have a translocation resulting in partial trisomy for the distal end of the long arm of chromosome 3. The phenotypically normal father carried a balanced reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 3 and 17.
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Aberrações Cromossômicas , Cromossomos Humanos 1-3 , Cromossomos Humanos 16-18 , Anormalidades Múltiplas/genética , Deficiências do Desenvolvimento/genética , Face/anormalidades , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Deficiência Intelectual/genética , Masculino , Translocação Genética , TrissomiaRESUMO
The clinical findings in 119 children with innocent heart murmurs have been reviewed. The majority were aged between 1 and 5 years, and it was in this age-group also that a maximum incidence of venous hum was recorded. There were no particular ECG or chest X-ray findings.
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Auscultação Cardíaca , Sopros Cardíacos , Fatores Etários , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Eletrocardiografia , Feminino , Auscultação Cardíaca/classificação , Cardiopatias/diagnóstico , Sopros Cardíacos/classificação , Humanos , Lactente , Masculino , Fatores SexuaisRESUMO
The Mary Sheridan Centre serves the needs of two health districts with a population of over half a million. The assessment of the handicapped child is combined with a Day Nursery and Observation Unit which provides therapeutic, educational and supportive guidance. During the year May 1973-74, 207 children were referred for assessment of whom only 11 were found to have no handicap. One-third of these referrals were from the hospital follow-up baby clinic and two-thirds came from community and general practitioner sources. The average age of referral was two years for girls and two and a half years for boys. Of the 196 handicapped children, 33 had neurological disorders, 30 congenital anomalies and 50 an adverse perinatal history. Social factors were thought to contribute significantly in 72; 35 children came from single parent families. Behaviour problems were noticed in a high proportion (68). Forty-four children regularly attend the Centre's day nursery whose staff include preschool teacher, occupational therapists and trained nurses for play, speech stimulation and specific therapy; 48 attend for speech therapy and 19 for physiotherapy. The prime aim is to help the parents continue with the therapy and care of their child in their own home.
