Radiodiagnosis in Infants: Volume I, Pelvis and Lower ExtremitiesRadiodiagnosis in Infants: Volume I, Pelvis and Lower Extremities. By Manuel and ArceFrancisco, Radiologists to the Infant Jesus Hospital, Pediatric Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of Madrid, and Asylum of San Rafael. Preface by Dr. SunerD. Enrique, Ordinary Professor of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine of Madrid. A volume of 285 pages and 210 illustrations. Published by Ediciones Boro, Madrid, 1933. Price not stated.

Abstract Objective: Migration is a problem affecting all family members, but particularly children. Child refugees are the highest risk group for the health systems of receiving countries. We investigated the health of 104 Syrian child refugees presenting to a tertiary hospital in Turkey. Settings and Design: A retrospective study was conducted in the pediatric clinic. Materials and Methods: The medical files of Syrian refugee children (0–18 years) presenting to Adiyaman University Hospital, Pediatric Clinic between 01 and 30 November 2015, were investigated. Demographic data, body measurements, and laboratory results obtained from patients' medical records were evaluated. Results: Mean age of patients was 53.5 ± 49.6 (2–198) months; 63 were male and 41 were female. Seventy-two patients (69.2%) were under 5 years of age. Weight in 20 patients (19.2%), height in 33 (31.7%), head circumference in 2 (1.9%), and body mass index in 7 (6.7%) were below the third percentile. All patients with body weight below the third percentile had chronic malnutrition. Anemia was present in 35 (50%) of the 70 patients for whom complete blood count data were available. Conclusion: Health workers involved with Syrian refugee children must consider the two preventable conditions; malnutrition and anemia.

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Lower Extremities Workbook Excerpts: Principles of Assessment: Excerpts from Guides Sixth Impairment Training Workbook-Lower Extremities

Guides Newsletter ◽

10.1001/amaguidesnewsletters.2009.sepoct02 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 14 (5) ◽

pp. 8-9

Keyword(s):

Lower Extremities

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Peripheral Nerve and Brachial Plexus Impairment, AMA Guides, Sixth Edition

Guides Newsletter ◽

10.1001/amaguidesnewsletters.2017.marapr01 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 3-5

Author(s):

James B. Talmage ◽

Jay Blaisdell

Keyword(s):

Peripheral Nerve ◽

Brachial Plexus ◽

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome ◽

Lower Extremities ◽

Pain Syndrome ◽

Upper Extremities ◽

Motor Deficits ◽

Type I ◽

Sixth Edition ◽

Nerve Entrapments

Abstract Physicians use a variety of methodologies within the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), Sixth Edition, to rate nerve injuries depending on the type of injury and location of the nerve. Traumatic injuries that cause impairment to the peripheral or brachial plexus nerves are rated using Section 15.4e, Peripheral Nerve and Brachial Plexus Impairment, for upper extremities and Section 16.4c, Peripheral Nerve Rating Process, for lower extremities. Verifiable nerve lesions that incite the symptoms of complex regional pain syndrome, type II (similar to the former concept of causalgia), also are rated in these sections. Nerve entrapments, which are not isolated traumatic events, are rated using the methodology in Section 15.4f, Entrapment Neuropathy. Type I complex regional pain syndrome is rated using Section 15.5, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome for upper extremities or Section 16.5, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome for lower extremities. The method for grading the sensory and motor deficits is analogous to the method described in previous editions of AMA Guides. Rating the permanent impairment of the peripheral nerves or brachial plexus is similar to the methodology used in the diagnosis-based impairment scheme with the exceptions that the physical examination grade modifier is never used to adjust the default rating and the names of individual nerves or plexus trunks, as opposed to the names of diagnoses, appear in the far left column of the rating grids.

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