L'HÔPITAL DES ENFANTS-MALADES, THE WORLD'S FIRST CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, FOUNDED IN PARIS IN 1802

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 670-670
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
Children’S Hospital ◽  
Sick Children ◽  
New Buildings ◽  
The French Revolution

The Hôpital des Enfants-Malades founded in 1802 on the Rue de Sévres in Paris was the first hospital especially established for the treatment of sick children. The building that was to become the first children's hospital was not a new one. It was originally known as the Maison Royale de l'Enfant-Jésus founded in 1722 by Abbé Languet de Gregy as a work shelter for 100 poor Parisian women. These women were employed in the spinning of flax and cotton, an effort that soon became a financially profitable venture. During the French Revolution the Maison Royale de l'Enfant-Jésus was taken over by the civil authorities to be used for the storage of coal and as a garage for carriages. Soon afterward, in July 1795, the building was refurbished by a decree of the Revolutionary Public Health Commission to serve as a central orphan asylum (Maison Nationale des Orphelins) for 436 children and was so used until April 29, 1802. On that date, by a decree of the Conseil Général des Hôpitaux, the orphans were to be moved to another institution in Paris and the building was then to become the Hôpital des Enfants-Malades to be used exclusively for the care of sick children of both sexes under 15 years of age. The number of beds was fixed at 300; there were 59 staff members including two clinicians and one surgeon.1 Over the years since 1802 many new buildings have been added but part of the original building remains today. Many famous French physicians have worked at the Hôpital des Enfants-Malades including Armand Trousseau, Henri Roget, Anatole Chauffard, Bernard Marfan, and Paul Broca.2

Assessment of Awareness About Biomedical Waste Among Doctors and Nurses of Children Hospital Lahore

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taimoor Hassan ◽  
Sidra Siddique ◽  
Sana Saeed ◽  
Muhammad Moazzam ◽  
Azmat Tahira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Biomedical Waste ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
Children’S Hospital ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Doctors And Nurses

Bio Medical waste refers to any type of waste which is generated during the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals or in research purposes pertaining to or in the fabrication or testing of biologicals. Objective: To assess the awareness about bio-medical waste management among Doctors and Nurses of Children Hospital.  Methods: Descriptive study was conducted in Children's Hospital and Institute of Child Health Lahore. Convenient Sampling Technique was applied to gather data. This was a hospital-based study in which staff members of both genders were included. The study population divided into two strata and these strata consisted of doctors and nurses. A total of 139 staff members were involved out of which there were 77 doctors, 62 nurses. Their responses checked by a Performa about problems in the management of biomedical waste. Results: The result showed that majority (62%) staff members had knowledge about bio-medical waste. The remaining staff had very basic knowledge about bio-medical waste. Conclusions: The awareness about BMW management among Children's Hospital Operation theater staff is satisfactory. But still, they need to improve their knowledge to ensure more patient safety by organizing seminars, workshops.

Private Practice

2016 ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Child Psychiatry ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Child Psychology ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Children’S Hospital ◽  
The Face ◽  
Public Health Clinics

In this essay, Winnicott expresses his opinion that it would be a tragedy if private practice in child psychiatry were to disappear in the face of public health clinics. Winnicott describes his own contribution to the field of child psychology through his work at Paddington Green Children’s Hospital and states his belief that private practice provides an economical psychiatric method when compared with ordinary clinic results.

scholarly journals EHEC outbreak among staff at a children's hospital – use of PCR for verocytotoxin detection and PFGE for epidemiological investigation

2004 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. WELINDER-OLSSON ◽  
K. STENQVIST ◽  
M. BADENFORS ◽  
Å. BRANDBERG ◽  
K. FLORÉN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Fast Method ◽  
Epidemiological Investigation ◽  
Foodborne Outbreak ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
Source Of Infection ◽  
Children’S Hospital ◽  
Culture Positive

This is the first report of a major foodborne outbreak of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) in Sweden. It occurred among the nursing staff at a children's hospital with approximately 1600 employees. Contaminated lettuce was the most likely source of infection. Nine persons were culture-positive for Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157 and verocytotoxin-positive by PCR and a further two were verocytotoxin-positive by PCR only. All 11 EHEC-positive individuals had attended a party for approximately 250 staff members, which was held at the hospital. In a questionnaire 37 persons stated that they had symptoms consistent with EHEC infection during the weeks after the party. There was no evidence of secondary transmission from staff to patients. The value of PCR as a sensitive and fast method for diagnosis is discussed in this paper. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was used to ascertain that staff members were infected by the same clone, and that two patients with E. coli O157 infection were not.

Neonatal Hospice Program

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 502-503
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Whitfield ◽  
Anita Glicken ◽  
Robert Harmon ◽  
Roberta Siegel ◽  
L. Joseph Butterfield
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Neonatal Death ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
Children’S Hospital

We wish to comment on the editorial by Silverman (A hospice setting for humane neonatal death, Pediatrics 69:239, 1982), which we find both insightful and timely. We feel we must take issue with some of Silverman's statements. Over the last 3½ years we have actively incorporated hospice concepts into our neonatal program at Denver Children's Hospital, creating a so-called Neonatal Hospice Program. 1. We agree that health care professionals involved in neonatal intensive care tend to be oriented to "rescue" care; however, in our own experience we have found that with adequate training not only are the staff members open, but often they are very willing to switch from a rescue to palliative mode of treatment in the appropriate circumstances.

Unilateral Cleft Lip with or without Cleft Palate and Handedness: Is There an Association?

1998 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Daskalogiannakis ◽  
Kari L. Kuntz ◽  
Albert E. Chudley ◽  
R. Bruce Ross
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
Secondary Palate ◽  
Children’S Hospital ◽  
Primary Palate ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Sick Children ◽  
The Right

Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility of a relationship between the side of occurrence of unilateral clefting of the lip and/or palate and handedness, also taking into account the type of the initial cleft condition, a factor that has not been adequately assessed in previous studies. Design This was a retrospective study. Setting Division of Orthodontics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, and Cleft Lip and Palate Program, Children's Hospital, Winnipeg, Canada. Participants Subjects were 289 patients (176 males and 113 females) 9 years of age or older presenting with a history of unilateral clefts of the lip with or without the palate. Of these patients, 217 were recruited from the patient pool of the Orthodontic Clinic at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. The remaining 72 were selected from the registry of the Cleft Lip and Palate Program of the Children's Hospital in Winnipeg. Any syndromic cases were excluded from the sample. Main outcome Measures Assessment of handedness was performed by asking the patients to fill out a multi-item questionnaire in which patients were asked to identify which hand they would use for different tasks. The side and type of the initial cleft condition were identified by reviewing each patient's hospital chart and by cross-referencing with clinical examination. Statistical evaluation of the results was performed by using the chi-square test. Results There was a significantly larger number of left-sided clefts (198) in the sample than right-sided clefts (91), (p < .001). The proportion of left-sided clefts among left-handers (84.6%) was higher than that among right-handers (66.8%). However, the relationship between side of cleft and handedness was not statistically significant (p = .185). Clefts of the primary palate only seemed to occur on the left side 3.5 times more often than on the right, whereas the corresponding ratio of left:right manifestation for clefts of the primary and secondary palate was 1.8:1. The difference was statistically significant (p < .05). Conclusion The findings of this study confirm the affinity of unilateral clefts for the left side but suggest that there are differences between clefts of the primary palate only and clefts of the primary and secondary palate. Also, non-right-handed patients show a greater predilection for having a cleft on the left side than do right-handed patients.

THE FIRST AMERICAN PLEA FOR A PERMANENT HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN (1852)

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-281
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Sick Child ◽  
Personal Care ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Children’S Hospital ◽  
Sick Children

In 1852, James Stewart (1799-1864), under the pen name "Phiopedos," originated a plan for the establishment of a children's hospital in New York City. When the institution was opened on March 1, 1854, under the name of the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital, it was the only hospital on this continent devoted to children. (There had been a hospital devoted exclusively to sick children in Boston as early as 1846, but financial difficulties forced it to close after a few years.) "Philopedos" wrote1: It must be evident to all who will reflect upon the large amount of sickness there is among the children of the poor in our city [New York], that hospital accommodations for them are among its most urgent wants. In the dwellings of the very poor there is almost always .. absence of everything necessary for the ordinary relief of the sick, and especially of the unremitting attention that is needed by them. The necessity of constant occupation to obtain the means of existence, precludes the possibility ...of devoting any time to the requirements of the sick; and it is from this want of attendance, next to want of pure air, that children suffer most. For those who have the necessary comforts for the sick, or who have the time that they may bestow upon their families, when they most require it, dispensary attendance is sufficient for their wants in sickness; but when it is known that many children are absolutely destitute of all these—indespensable as they are—the necessity of proving well-ventilated accomodations is evident; a place where all the wants of the sick [child] may be supplied, and especially when personal care must form an essential pant of the arrangement;—a need only to be supplied by the establishment of a well-organized hospital....

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