The most concerning of these is opisthotonus – where the head and neck arch backward while the rest of the body remains stiff. In infants, persistent arching of the back during an illness can ...

Treatment of storming is aimed at abating the symptoms and limiting the stress response. The overall goal of medication is to dampen the sympathetic outflow or act as the parasympathetic system ...

The diagnosis actually becomes apparent within the clinical arena. Nursing clinical evaluation, most often over time, reveals the diagnosis. The nurse provides the most reliable data for diagnosis ...

A 3-year-old male child who had developed bilirubin encephalopathy in the neonatal period, due to Rh incompatibility, presented with delayed neuromotor/psychomotor development and involuntary ...