Pediatric Education and Research

The pionear of Indian paediatrics are not in lime light unfortunately, they have contributed not only in Indian Paediatrics but also at International level. This is the tribute to this great Indian Paediatricians.  

Key words: Indian Paediatrics; Dr. George Cohelo; Dr. Professor S.T.Achar; Dr. K.C.Chaudhary

Marfan’s syndrome is a genetic disorder of the connective tissue. People with Marfan’s tend to be unusually tall, with long limbs and long, thin fingers. The syndrome is inherited as a autosomal dominant trait, carried by the gene FBN1, which encodes the connective protein fibrillin-1. 

Key words: Marfan’s syndrome; Connective tissue disorder; FBN1; Fibrillin-1.

Patau syndrome is a chromosomal abnormility in which patient has an additionalchromosome 13 due to non disjunction of chromosome during meiosis. Some are caused by translocation while others are caused by mosaic patau syndrome. 

Key words: Patau syndrome; Trisomy 13; Trisomy D.

Before the 1920’s, birth took place at home and was attended by doctors or midwives. In the 20’s, women flocked to hospitals for the ‘new’ modern methods of ‘painless’ childbirth by sedating mother. Not all doctors saw comatose childbirth as a positive step for Mom and Baby. Dr. Grantley Dick-Read of England saw the beauty in participatory childbirth. He noticed that women who had someone with them to explain events had significantly less pain. In the 1930’s he wrote “Birth Without Fear”. In the late 40’s, the Maternity Center of New York sponsored a grant to study the effect of his methods and to allow babies to ‘room in’. Fernande Lamaze, a French obstetrician, studied Russian techniques of conditioned response to reduce childbirth pain. The organization of the LaLeche League gave us the movement to promote breastfeeding.After that comes the concept of PREPARED CHILD BIRTH which gives Mom choices as to how to have her baby and along with her partner allows her to make these choices based on information not fear or ignorance. In the 60’s, Dr. Robert Bradley introduced the radical concept of fathers in the delivery room. Michael Odent brought the concept of water birth. 

Key words: Labor; Home deliveries; Hospital deliveries; Water birth.   

Objective: To study the time spent by children on Sunday in children aged 6 years to 12 years. Design: Prospective study. Setting: Paediatric department of a tertiary care teaching hospital. Participants: Total 300 cases were included in the study. Cases were children of age group 6 years to 12 years coming to paediatricOPD during 1st June 2011 to 31st May 2012. Methods: After informed consent, detailed history was taken and parents were asked for the details of their child’s activity on Sunday. Results: About 25% time is spent for watching television averagely, with some variation between boys & girls (boys>girls). Conclusions: The total time spent by boys on electronic based equipments is 57.5% & by girls is 50%. 

Key words: Sunday; Electronic media; TV; 6 years to 12 years.

The central impairments of people with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) include social interaction, language and communication. Music therapy uses music and its elements to enable communication and expression, thus attempting to address some of the core problems of people with ASD.

Keywords: Autism; Communication; Music therapy; Non-verbal communication; Imitation & Listening Response. 

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