Current Concepts in Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy: Etiology to Intervention
Many gains have been made in treating hemiplegic cerebral palsy in recent years. These include a better understanding of diagnosis, imaging, risk factors and treatments.
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Apps, games and tech in healthcare: the rise of digital health and how Melbourne Children’s is leading the way
Digital health is an umbrella term for the application of ICT and technology in healthcare, incorporating mobile health apps, wearable technologies such as the fitbit and Google glass, web-based research and clinical decision support tools, and the re-purposing of gaming technologies, such as the Xbox kinect, for health applications.
Tour de ChIPS: How young people with chronic illness see it and how, through the RCH Chronic Illness Peer Support (ChIPS) Program, they shared this on a global scale in Paris
ChIPS the RCH Chronic Illness Peer Support program, is twenty one years old this year. Managed by the Centre for Adolescent Health, ChIPS brings young people together to share their experiences of chronic illness, create peer support networks and engage in activities that they may not get a chance to do otherwise. The program uses both Youth Participation and Peer Support models.
Options for the failing Fontan
The Australia and New Zealand Fontan Registry is the largest database of patients born with a single heart pumping chamber. The Fontan Registry has already allowed us to demonstrate that survival is far better than expected.
Three decades of hypospadias repair and still learning
Hypospadias is a common malformation in boys with potential long-term consequences. Despite better understanding of the malformation and refinement of surgery, the results can remain unsatisfactory, especially in proximal hypospadias. Prof Martin Koyle will present the journey of an experienced pediatric urologist involved in surgical correction and follow-up of patients with hypospadias.
Diversity in the Health Context – Bridging the Divide to Culturally Appropriate Care
Australian patients with low English proficiency are considerably disadvantaged compared to patients who are fluent in English; they stay in hospital longer, have higher readmission rates, and undergo more diagnostic tests. When these patients also have a disability or a mental health condition, the divide is even greater. ‘Diversity’ in the health context mainly translates to ‘disadvantage’ and inequality; this Grand Round will argue that we need to change the perception of ‘diversity’ as a problem, and embrace it as a solution.
Celebrating Women in Science
To secure Australia’s health and economy into the future, the talents of women in science are vital. In biology, over half of all Bachelor of Science and PhD graduates are women, yet there is only one in ten women at the senior levels of our universities and research institutes
The Hopkins Symposium – Rapid diagnosis of paediatric stroke – new targets and possibilities
Although considered uncommon by adult standards, stroke is more common than brain tumours and it is amongst the top ten causes of death in children. Contrary to traditional views, it is now accepted that children don’t necessarily recover better than adults, with over half of survivors having long-term neurological and cognitive impairments
Abdominal trauma in children – something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
This Grand Round will outline the important and well established principles in the management of blunt abdominal trauma (something old), and demonstrate the degree to which these tenets are affirmed, challenged or refuted by advances in understanding and practice (something new).
Exciting Developments in the World of Cystic Fibrosis
Research at the Melbourne Children’s Campus was recently described in the New England Journal of Medicine as ‘leading to a paradigm shift in our understanding of lung disease in cystic fibrosis’.