RESUMO
Transporting children with special health care needs (CSHCN) may be complex and require a multidisciplinary approach to improve a child's comfort and safety. This review (adapted from the resource manual of the National Center for the Safe Transportation of Children with Special Health Care Needs.) will discuss the basic principles of child passenger safety for CSHCN, including types of child occupant restraints, the use of child occupant restraint devices (CRD) for selected CHSCN, and how to locate or, if needed, develop programs to train child passenger safety technicians (CPST) to help with safe transportation of CSHCN.
Assuntos
Crianças com Deficiência , Meios de Transporte/normas , Ferimentos e Lesões/prevenção & controle , Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Sistemas de Proteção para Crianças/normas , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Fidelidade a Diretrizes/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , Lactente , Masculino , Veículos Automotores , Gestão da Segurança/normas , Cintos de Segurança/normas , Estados Unidos , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Advances in medical and surgical care over the past 20 years have resulted in children who formerly would have died at birth or in infancy now surviving into adulthood, many with significant, permanent physical disabilities, including those due to cerebral palsy (CP). Increased awareness of these problems is needed by adult health care providers, who will be providing direct care to these individuals, and also by pediatric providers, who may be able to anticipate and prevent some of the long-term problems. This article reviews the common medical-surgical problems and their management in adults with CP. In addition the life experience of a 44 year-old with CP is described from a personal perspective.