Failure to thrive (FTT) is when infants and children fail to grow and gain weight at a normal rate, deviating significantly from the norms on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts.
Category: Child Health Nursing Care Plans
Child Health care is defined as the medical services that are provided by the medical health professionals to the children having disease or infection. These services are funded by different health organizations. These medical professionals are specialized and experienced in treating pediatric patients.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the most common fatal genetic disorders in the United States. It is an autosomal recessive disease, meaning that both parents must be carriers and contribute one defective gene for a child to be born with CF.
Hydrocephalus results from an increased accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within the ventricles of the brain due to an imbalance between the production and absorption of CSF.
Cerebral palsy (CP) is defined as any nonprogressive central motor deficit
linked to events in the prenatal, perinatal, or postnatal period that resulted in damage to or dysfunction of the central nervous system.
Liver failure results when the liver is unable to maintain its many functions. With this failure, substances normally produced by the liver are absent and those normally removed by the liver accumulate.
Hemophilia is the term used to describe a group of hereditary bleeding disorders in which one of the factors needed for blood coagulation is deficient.
Cleft lip and cleft palate occur early in pregnancy when the sides of the lips
and roof of the mouth do not fuse together as they should.
Hypertension is usually defined as an elevation of the systolic and/or diastolic blood pressures above the acceptable range for a given age and sex.
Congenital heart disease (CHD) occurs in approximately 8 out of 1,000 live births. In most cases, the specific cause is unknown. Inheritance,
genetic predisposition, and environmental influences (such as viruses, alcohol, and drugs) have been associated with CHD.
Otitis media (OM) is the most common reason for visits to the pediatrician in the first 3 yr of life, the leading cause of antibiotic use, and the most common cause of hearing loss in children.
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