Cerebral Palsy is, basically, a group of disorders that will affect your child’s ability to move, maintain balance and posture when they are growing up. It is an abnormal brain problem that affects the control over muscles. In a lot of cases, there are no proper causes for the disease. What are the signs? If...
Category: <span>Paediatric Critical Care Cases</span>
Case 3 :- 3 year old with Gall stone induced Acute Severe Necrotising Pancreatitis with peritonitis and Hypovolemic shock
Case Summary :- 3 years old girl child presented to us with complaint of pain abdomen predominantly epigastric in location, intermittent in nature, partially relieved with medicines, since 5-6 days. Her abdominal pain had worsened in last 24 hrs and she also had 2 episodes of bilious vomiting. Intensity of pain and general condition of...
Case 2:- 4 yr old child with Anterior Mediastinal Mass causing Critical airway obstruction & SVC syndrome
Case summary – 4 year old previously healthy child developed abdominal pain on right side since 15 days, difficult in breathing since 2 days, more in lying down position and facial edema since 1 day. CXR was done by local practitioner which revealed minimal right pleural effusion and the child was referred to a local...
Case 1:- 5 year old child with High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE).
Summary – Apparently well 5 years old child went to high altitude ( Leh ) by flight .Within 8-10 hrs of landing at high altitude child developed breathing difficulty.Over next few hours she developed frank pulmonary edema and CXR showed bilateral extensive fluffy infiltrates in both lung fields. In view of respiratory failure ( saturation...
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