Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The hospital has multiple patient care units to care for a variety of pediatric patients from age 0-21. [30] 28-bed pediatric emergency department; 47-bed neonatal intensive care unit; 10-bed immediate care unit; 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit; 18-bed transitional care unit; 31-bed pediatric medical/surgical; 29-bed hematology/oncology
Polio-like syndrome is a general description of a group of symptoms which mimic polio, including rarely permanent paralysis. Various triggers have been found, including some viruses from the same virus group as polio: enterovirus 68, enterovirus 71, and coxsackievirus A7. [1] [2] These are suspected in many cases of acute flaccid myelitis.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, formerly Children's Memorial Hospital and commonly known as Lurie Children's, is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Chicago, Illinois. The hospital has 360 beds and is affiliated with the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Olympic freestyle swimmer in the 1950s and 1960s, Konrads caught a mild case of polio while swimming at the community pool. [184] [185] Simo Lampinen: born 1943: Simo Lampinen caught polio, aged 13, in 1956 and spent three months in ventilator in the Aurora Hospital, Helsinki. He missed the chances of becoming a motorcyclist like his father ...
Poliomyelitis (/ ˌ p oʊ l i oʊ ˌ m aɪ ə ˈ l aɪ t ɪ s / POH-lee-oh-MY-ə-LY-tiss), commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. [1] Approximately 75% of cases are asymptomatic; [5] mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe symptoms develop such as headache, neck stiffness, and paresthesia.
In 2019 the hospital announced a partnership with University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital and North Shore University Health System's pediatric division to help provide better pediatric care for children. [10] The alliance is opening a joint 35,000-square-foot outpatient pediatric center in Wilmette. [11]
Each WHO member state's national polio program appoints a National Certification Committee (NCC). These NCCs meet annually until national certification to report on the status of national polio surveillance and elimination. A country is regarded as polio free or non-endemic if no cases have been detected by high-quality surveillance for a year.
As of 2020, five of the six WHO regions are now certified polio-eradicated (Europe, the Americas, Africa, South-East Asian, and Western Pacific Region). India was certified polio-free in 2014, [14] and Africa was declared polio free in 2020. [15] The only countries with endemic polio were Afghanistan and Pakistan as of 2021. [16]