Download the Integrated Plan for Detection & Management of Neonatal Jaundice here. This current guideline for has been reviewed in line with the 2015 Ministry of Health’s Clinical Practice Guideline: Management of Neonatal Jaundice (second edition) and is meant for use as reference by staff from both hospital and health clinics.
In newborn babies, jaundice is so common as to be termed physiological. It affects around 60% of term babies and around 80% of preterm babies in the first week of their lives. Clinicians need to monitor it carefully and sometimes treat it, since it can lead to conditions like acute bilirubin encephalopathy and kernicterus that can damage the infant’s…
TORONTO — In pediatric medicine, unnecessary testing can be eliminated without compromising outcomes if every physician simply asks how the test will benefit the patient, new data show. Overtesting and overdiagnosis is prevalent in pediatrics, said Eric Coon, MD, from the University of Utah School of Medicine Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. And…
NEW YORK — With one completed suicide every day, US physicians have the highest suicide rate of any profession. In addition, the number of physician suicides is more than twice that of the general population, new research shows. A systematic literature review of physician suicide shows that the suicide rate among physicians is 28 to…
Musa Mohd Nordin Abstract One of the five matters before being overtaken by its opposite as advocated by the Prophet (SAW) was “your health, before you fall sick” (Muslim). This concept of the Prophet’s Medicine (Tibb Nabawi) has been much discussed and unfortunately misunderstood, even abused in recent times. This paper attempts to examine…
Date: 12 April 2018 Venue: Auditorium Gemilang, Hospital Tuanku Ja’afar, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan Organised by the Department of Radiology, Hospital Tuanku Ja’afar, Seremban and co-organised by the Department of Paediatric & Department of Surgery For enquiries please contact the organisers at Email: 2018radiocon@gmail.com Or whatsapp to: MDM Sarah: 013-‐7948204 or Dr Santha: 013-‐6233722 Please download the Brochure below… Click Here to…
30 January 2017 Please find a letter from the Director General of Health Malaysia here; MOH-Childhood-drowning-Malaysia
26 December 2016 J.S. Blumenthal-Barby, PhD, a Laura Loftis, MD, a Christy L. Cummings, MD, b William Meadow, MD, PhD, cMonica Lemmon, MD, d Peter A. Ubel, MD, d Laurence McCullough, PhD, a Emily Rao, BA, e John D. Lantos, MDf An infant has a massive intracranial hemorrhage. She is neurologically abstract devastated and ventilator-dependent. The prognosis for pulmonary or neurologic recovery is bleak. The physicians and parents face a choice: withdraw the ventilator…
13 September 2016 3-4 Sep 2016 @ Hilton Tokyo Odaiba Hosted by Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Part II HFNC – a technique to provide a range of flows of heated, humidified oxygen and air to patients requiring respiratory support, delivered through nasal cannulae. Nursing perspective – easier to set up & use, more comfortable for…
