J.esus García Pérez

• Head of Department at Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús

Introducción Se comparan las tasas de hospitalización por infección respiratoria aguda en niños con cardiopatías congénitas significativas sin síndrome de Down y en niños con síndrome de Down, con y sin cardiopatías, menores de 24 meses. Material y métodos Estudio epidemiológico, multicéntrico (53 hospitales), observacional y prospectivo, de octubr...

We compare hospitalisation rates for acute respiratory tract infection in children younger than 24 months with significant congenital heart disease without Down's syndrome with those with Down's syndrome with or without congenital heart disease. This was an epidemiological, multicentre (53 Spanish hospitals), observational and prospective study, fr...

Resumen Introducción: Se comparan las tasas de hospitalización por infección respiratoria aguda en niños con cardiopatías congénitas significativas sin síndrome de Down y en niños con síndrome de Down, con y sin cardiopatías, menores de 24 meses. Material y métodos: Estudio epidemiológico, multicéntrico (53 hospitales), observacional y prospectivo,...

Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in infants has a significant impact on the quality of life of their parents. Cross-sectional study on the sociological family impact related to rotavirus AGE in children under 2 years. The study was carried out in 25 hospitals and 5 primary care centres in Spain. Sociodemographic, epidemiological and clinical data were r...

Introduccion Las gastroenteritis agudas (GEA) pueden originar una disrupcion de la vida familiar con un importante impacto sobre la calidad de vida de los padres. Material y metodos Estudio transversal del impacto familiar asociado a las GEA en menores de 2 anos, realizado en 25 hospitales y 5 centros de atencion primaria en Espana. Se recogieron d...

Introduction: Given the increasing number of adoptions from China in countries such as Spain, a study was designed to know and assess the nutritional profile at arrival and its likely implication in global health status, growth, and development of adopted Chinese girls. Patients and methods: Eighty-five Chinese girls adopted in Spain during the 200...

Spain has become the second international adoption country. This process usually is long and complex and implies not only the own family, but also the school, health and all the society. The objective of the implied professionals must be focused in offering the suitable information to the parents during the allocation, to interpret the medical info...

In recent years, there has been a worldwide response to social changes and technological advances that has altered the position of medicine and made it necessary to give considerations to and establish the bases of values, concepts and symbols that guide medical care. The term of environmental health, coined in 1993, is greatly bond to the developm...

Teachers talk of students who cannot keep still in their seats and concentrate, who react aggressively to matters of little importance, who lack the creativity and the capacity to develop their own thoughts: Can this all be blamed on new technology? Perhaps the nervousness and aggression of many children who frequently use audiovisuals has another...

Children's Rights are not a scientific subject. They are not found in books on Paediatrics. And yet what happens with their rights concerns Paediatricians. The review of some articles of the Convention from a paediatrician's point of view can help us find the most suitable ways of defending children's rights through the profession. In their profess...

Given the increasing number of adoptions from China in countries such as Spain, a study was designed to know and assess the nutritional profile at arrival and its likely implication in global health status, growth, and development of adopted Chinese girls. Eighty-five Chinese girls adopted in Spain during the 2002-2003 period and ages ranging 7-33...

The Vaccine Advisory Committee of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics provides information on the new developments in vaccines that have taken place in 2007, based on the available evidence, and discusses these developments. Certain modifications to the Immunization Schedule for 2008 are recommended. A second varicella vaccine booster dose, admin...

The appearance of new social phenomenons as immigration and international adoption in developed countries increases the necessity to calculate the individual's age in order to admit the asylum, to process the repatriation, to judge crimes applying the Smaller's Law or, simply, to value its physical and intellectual development. Although classically...

Background We decided to assess the healthproblems of internationally adoptedchildren in Spain. Patients and method Retrospective study of135 medical records from the HospitalNiño Jesus, Madrid. The prevalence of malnutrition,anemia, parasitosis and other acquiredand congenital diseases was studied. Results 18.9% of children were consideredcomple...

We decided to assess the health problems of internationally adopted children in Spain. Retrospective study of 135 medical records from the Hospital Niño Jesus, Madrid. The prevalence of malnutrition, anemia, parasitosis and other acquired and congenital diseases was studied. 18.9% of children were considered completely healthy; 37.8% children had a...

Complications in 322 percutaneous subclavian vein catheters placed in 272 children by the infraclavicular approach were investigated prospectively. Ages ranged from 4 days to 15 years. Incidents during catheter introduction occurred in 13 cases, and were more common when insertion was on the right side (p less than 0.01). Nine (2.8%) required urgen...

Meningococcal sepsis is a frequent disease in our population with a bad prognosis even in a few hours. The search for easy and fast to obtain criteria of severity is essential decrease in order to the mortality rates. We have studied in 56 patients ranged from two months to six years, with bacteriological confirmation of meningococcal sepsis, the c...

Naloxone clorhidrate was administered intravenously to 15 patients with endotoxic shock and refractary hypotension, following meningococcal sepsis. Doses used were between 0.01-0.2 mg/kg. Three patients (two of them with moderate shock) showed an increase in sistolic arterial pressure, which was maintained and above 20 mm/Hg. Among the rest of them...

Adult respiratory distress syndrome is becoming more frequent in pediatric age. There are several factors involved in its' etiology. Sepsis is almost invariably present in all patients. Basic mechanism is an increase of pulmonary capillary permeability with production of acute non cardiogenic oedema. The decrease in compliance and functional residu...