Neonatal and Pediatric Palliative Care
There are 75 million children in USA accounting for 24% of total US population (315 million) in 2013. They are primarily covered by either Employee Sponsored Health Insurance programs (41.4 million in 2010) or by federal-state sponsored Medicaid insurance programs (26.8 million in 2010) and approximately 7 million children were uninsured. ESI covered 41.4 million children in 2010. Since 2007, the population of children covered by ESI declined 5.7%. Insurers and beneficiaries spent $87.9 billion on health care for children in 2010. Since 2007, total health care expenditures on children grew 11.9 %. Americans spent over 31.1% of their health care dollars for children on teenagers and 31.4% on infants and toddlers.Pediatric and Neonatal Palliative care is specialized medical care for children and infants with serious illnesses. It fixates on providing palliation from the symptoms, pain, and stresses of an earnest illness—whatever the diagnosis. The goal is to ameliorate quality of life for both the child and the family. Pediatric palliative care is provided by a team of medicos, nurses and other specialists who collaborate with a child’s other medicos as an extra layer of fortification. It is congruous at any age and at any stage of an illness and can be provided along with treatment betokened to remedy. Pediatric palliative care addresses an earnest medical condition, including genetic disorders, cancer, prematurity, neurologic disorders, heart and lung conditions and others. It mitigates the symptoms of these diseases, such as pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, constipation, nausea, loss of appetite and arduousness slumbering. This benefits both the child and the family by palliating the symptoms, pain and emotional wear-and-tear that can make facing an earnest illness so arduous for your child and your family caregivers homogeneous.It withal covers Prenatal Care by frequent assessment and evaluation of Patient and Family and Expertise in the field of handling a child. Adept nursing is a very consequential part of Pediatric Palliative Care as the symptoms are so rigorous for some of the kids that it becomes unbearable for a child to bear the pain. At that point an adept nurse capitalizes the situation and takes cares of the adolescent patient.
- Perinatal Hospice and Palliative Care
- Prenatal Care
- Frequent Assessment and Evaluation of Patient and Family
- Pediatric Expertise with the Child
- Skilled Nursing for Pediatric Palliative Care
Related Conference of Neonatal and Pediatric Palliative Care
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Neonatal and Pediatric Palliative Care Conference Speakers
Recommended Sessions
- Care Giving Models
- Care of Young People
- Cost of Care and Benefits
- Emergency Medicine and Health Care
- Ethical and Legal Issues
- Hospice Care
- Major Symptoms after Palliative Care
- Neonatal and Pediatric Palliative Care
- Pain Management
- Palliative Care
- Palliative Care in Special Situations
- Palliative Care Services
- Research in Care and Medicine
- Spirituality in Hospice and Palliative Care
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