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Other Pediatric Long Term Care Articles
Persistent Vegetative
State / Minimally Conscious State. Workshop presentation at
the 29th Annual Symposium of the American Medical Directors' Association,
Dallas, Texas, March 17, 2006.
Pediatric Nursing Facility Protocols.
These protocols give instructions to the nursing staff at pediatric
long-term care facilities. They have been developed over 15 years
of active clinical service to disabled children and young adults.
These are being provided as a public service. They should be modified
to meet the individual needs within a pediatric / young adult nursing
facility.
(1) Calcitonin treatment
of osteoporosis in quadriplegic cerebral palsy; (2) Osteoporosis
in quadriplegic cerebral palsy: risk factors, protective effect
of epilepsy and anticonvulsants. Two papers presented at the
annual meeting of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental
Medicine, September 2003, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Developmental
Medicine and Child Neurology, 45 (suppl. 96): 32-33, 2003.
Pulmonary vest therapy
in quadriplegic cerebral palsy. Handout for a paper presented
at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy
and Developmental Medicine, September 2003, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
(1) Pulmonary vest therapy
to prevent pneumonias in quadriplegic cerebral palsy; (2) Cost savings
of pulmonary vest therapy. Two papers presented at the annual
meeting of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and
the American Society for Neurorehabilitation, October 2003, Tucson,
AZ. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 84: A6-A8,
2003.
Cost Reduction of Pulmonary
Disease in Neuromuscularly Impaired Pediatric Patients. Medical
Direction workshop handout, American Medical Directors Association
Annual Symposium, March 7, 2003, Orlando, FL.
Pulmonary vest therapy in pediatric
long-term care. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association,
3:318-321, 2002.
(1) Calcitonin treatment
of osteoporosis in pediatric long-term care: III; (2) Pulmonary
vest therapy in pediatric long-term care: II; (3) Survival rates
of children with severe neurologic disabilities in pediatric skilled
nursing facilities. Three papers presented at the annual meeting
of the American Medical Directors Association, March, 2002, San
Diego, California. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association,
3:A17-18, 2002.
(1) Osteoporosis in quadriplegic
cerebral palsy: risk factors, protective effect of epilepsy and
anticonvulsants; (2) Calcitonin treatment of osteoporosis in quadriplegic
cerebral palsy; (3) Pulmonary vest therapy in quadriplegic cerebral
palsy. Three papers presented at the annual meeting of the Child
Neurology Society, October, 2002, Washington, DC. Annals of Neurology,
52:Supplement 1, pages S145-5, S156, 2002.
An ethical response to Peter Singer.
Caring for the Ages. 2:11-13, 2001.
Osteoporosis in pediatric
long-term care: II. Paper presented at the annual meeting of
the American Medical Directors Association, March, 2001, Atlanta,
Georgia; Journal of the American Medical Directors Association,
2:A16, 2001.
Calcitonin treatment of osteoporosis
in pediatric long-term care: II. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the American Medical Directors Association, March, 2001,
Atlanta, Georgia; Journal of the American Medical Directors Association,
2:A16, 2001.
Pulmonary vest therapy in pediatric
long-term care. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Medical Directors Association, March, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia;
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2:A17, 2001.
Infection Control in Pediatric
Facilities. Medical Direction workshop handout. American Medical
Directors Association annual meeting, March 17, 2000, San Francisco,
California.
(1) Calcitonin treatment of
osteoporosis in pediatric long-term care; (2) Osteoporosis in pediatric
long-term care; (3) Ketogenic diet as a treatment of refractory
epilepsy in the pediatric skilled nursing facility. Three papers
presented at the annual meeting of the American Medical Directors
Association, March, 2000, San Francisco, California; Journal of
the American Medical Directors Association. 1:A7, 2000.
Osteoporosis in Severe Cerebral Palsy.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Child Neurology Society,
October, 2000, St. Louis, Missouri; Annals of Neurology. 48: 545,
2000.
Calcitonin Treatment of Osteoporosis
in Severe Cerebral Palsy. Paper presented at the annual meeting
of the Child Neurology Society, October, 2000, St. Louis, Missouri;
Annals of Neurology. 48: 545, 2000.
Pediatric Long Term Care: Management
of Spasticity. Medical Direction workshop handout, American
Medical Directors Annual Symposium, March 5, 1999, Orlando, Florida.
Clinical research in pediatric long
term care. Proceedings of the American Medical Directors Association,
Phoenix, Arizona, February 13-16, 1997.
Infection Control Issues in Long
Term Care Nursing Facilities. DDNA-Northern Illinois Chapter
Meeting. Workshop handout, May 1,1996
L-carnitine as a treatment of lethargy
in children with chronic neurologic handicaps. Brain and Development.
16:146-149, 1994.
