pediatrics

Also known as pædiatrics, pediatric medicine, paediatrics, paediatric medicine, pedonosology, paedonosology

AI overview

Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that specializes in providing medical care to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. It matters because it addresses the unique health needs of younger patients, with age ranges for pediatric care varying by country and organization—typically extending from infancy through the late teens or early twenties.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

In the Vinony graph

Within Vinony's link graph, pediatrics is referenced by 4,683 other articles, and connects out to infant, child and physician.

It sits within the topics Childhood, Medical specialties and Pediatrics.

Its subject is documented across 79 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Medical specialty.title: Pediatrics
Medical specialty.subdivisions: Pediatric cardiology, neonatology, critical care, pediatric oncology, hospital medicine, primary care, others (see below)
Medical specialty.image: 250px
Medical specialty.caption: A pediatrician examines a neonate.
Medical specialty.focus: Infants, children, adolescents, and young adults
Medical specialty.diseases: Congenital diseases, infectious diseases, childhood cancer, mental disorders
Medical specialty.tests: World Health Organization Child Growth Standards
Medical specialty.specialist: Pediatrician
Medical specialty.glossary: Glossary of medicine
Occupation.name: Pediatrics
Occupation.image: 60px
Occupation.official_names: Pediatrician Paediatrician
Occupation.type: Specialty
Occupation.activity_sector: Medicine
Occupation.formation: Doctor of Medicine Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS/MBChB)
Occupation.employment_field: Hospitals, Clinics

via Wikipedia infobox

Research

1,501,742 papers

Recommendations for mechanical ventilation of critically ill children from the Paediatric Mechanical Ventilation Consensus Conference (PEMVECC).Intensive care medicine · 2017
Antibiotic Resistance in Paediatric Febrile Urinary Tract Infections.Journal of global antimicrobial resistance · 2022
Paediatric emergency medicine.Archives of disease in childhood · 2022
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapy for arrhythmias in the pediatric population: EHRA and AEPC-Arrhythmia Working Group joint consensus statement.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2013
Contemporary paediatric radiation oncology.Archives of disease in childhood · 2023

via PubMed

Wikidata facts

Image: Examination of a boy in Kenya.jpg

Show 4 more facts

Commons category: Pediatrics
Commons gallery: Paediatrics
OpenStreetMap tag: healthcare:speciality=paediatrics
P8168: Make Love Like a Man

Sources (5)

via Wikidata · CC0

~25 min read

Encyclopedic overview

22 sections

Contents

History
Etymology
Differences between adult and pediatric medicine
Absorption
Distribution
Metabolism
Elimination
Pediatric autonomy in healthcare
History of pediatric autonomy
Parental authority and current medical issues
Modern advancements
Education requirements
Canada
India
United States
Training of pediatricians
Subspecialties
Other specialties that care for children
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Pediatrics (American English), also spelled paediatrics (British English), also known as underage medicine, is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. Within the Commonwealth, pediatrics covers patients until the age of 18, except in India where the pediatric age is 12. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends people seek pediatric care through the age of 21, but some pediatric subspecialists continue to care for adults up to 26, depending on insurance coverage for young adults who reside with parents. Worldwide age limits of pediatrics have been trending upward year after year. A medical doctor who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician, or paediatrician. The word pediatrics and its cognates mean "healer of children", derived from the two Greek words: (pais "child") and (iatros "doctor, healer"). Pediatricians work in clinics, research centers, universities, general hospitals and children's hospitals, including those who practice pediatric subspecialties (e.g. neonatology requires resources available in a NICU).

==History== right|250px|thumb|Part of Great Ormond Street Hospital in [[London, United Kingdom, which was the first pediatric hospital in the English-speaking world.]]

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pediatrics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.