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October

Pediatric Chronic Care and Disability Workshop

Online

Workshop
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Goals

  • Identify children with medical complexity (CCC) by virtue of their complexity, fragility and high intensity intensity/ technological dependency
  • To identify children with special health care needs and high related morbidity
  • Identify and damage common medical problem in children with chronic medical condition: swallowing difficulty and recurrent aspiration pneumonias, sleep disorder and obstructive sleep apnea, tracheostomies and home ventilation, venous access, non-oral feeding and swallowing disorder, siallorhia, spasticity and dystonomia, wound care, behavior and developmental problems.
  • Develop a discharge care plan for CCC during admissions that is sustainable in the home setting.
  • Strategize to improve emergency department visit
  • Transition to adult care
  • To develop an appropriate health care transition plan
  • Ways to develop structural educational program for future physicians to deal with chronically ill child.

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