PAEDIATRIC AND CHILD HEALTH I

Course Content

• Introduction to Pediatrics and Neonatology -Definitions and terminologies, concepts and principles of pediatrics, comprehensive Paediatric history;


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• Essential newborn care; Normal newborn examination, assessment of the newborn, APGAR score, birth asphyxia and anoxia, Active resuscitation and care. Birth injuries, congenital disorders and abnormalities, premature neonate, SGA and LGA Anemia, jaundice; ABO and rhesus incompatibility and hemorrhagic diseases of the newborn.


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• Congenital Infections; Syphilis, rubella, herpes, toxoplasmosis, CMV Neonatal sepsis, Neonatal convulsions, Perinatal mortality.


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• Growth and Development - Growth monitoring, Factors influencing growth and development, developmental milestones.


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• Infant feeding and Nutritional disorders - Breast feeding, Weaning and Artificial feeds. Micronutrient deficiencies.Malnutrition; WHO Classification of malnutrition; SAM; MAM and Rickets.


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• Immunization, Immunizable and Tropical diseases -Vaccines, DVI (KEPI), National Immunization Schedule; Immunizable diseases: Etiology, pathophysiology, presentation, investigation, treatment, complications and prevention.


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• Tropical diseases: aetiology, lifecycle, transmission, pathophysiology, presentation, investigations, treatment and control, WHO staging and, Management of HIV /aids opportunistic infections.


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• Kenya essential package of health - IMNCI, ETAT plus WHO GUIDELINES: Concept of IMNCI, common childhood illnesses, Classification of sick children, Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment of sick children.


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• Respiratory Diseases and Conditions - Overview of Anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system; Congenital defects of respiratory system: etiology, pathophysiology, presentation, differential diagnosis, complications, management, prognosis and prevention, ENT: Coryza, foreign body, epiglottitis, Laryngo-tracheal bronchitis, bronchiolitis, bronchiolitis, Bronchial Asthma, pneumonia, pleural effusion, lung abscess.


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