Norton Healthcare has named Emmett Ramser chief administrative officer of Norton Children’s Hospital. In his role, Ramser will oversee all facets of the hospital’s operations and work diligently to ensure that children throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana have access to specialty care. He also will oversee operations of Norton Children’s Medical Center in northeastern Jefferson…
An editorial in the latest American Academy of Pediatrics journal, Pediatrics, recommends adding an additional “S” to the HEADSSS acronym to become HEADS4. The revised acronym would equate to: home life, education, activities, drugs, sexual activity, safety, suicide and/or depression, and social media. Highlights from the editorial: Because aberrant social media use may mirror addiction,…
Specialists with Norton Leatherman Spine and Norton Children’s Orthopedics of Louisville can diagnose and treat pediatric patients with mild, moderate or severe scoliosis. Scoliosis may be a concern if a child’s shoulders are uneven, a curve in the spine is visible or the pelvis appears to be tilted. Depending on the type of scoliosis, it…
The new Norton Mobility Lab, located in Norton Medical Plaza 1 on the Norton Healthcare – St. Matthews campus, offers gait analysis and training using the GRAIL system. Gait Real-time Analysis Interactive Lab (GRAIL) is a versatile, multisensory system which facilitates analysis and training for pediatric and adult patients with impaired walking. Gait issues may…
A continuing medical education symposium designed to assist pediatric care providers in delivering appropriate care to children transitioning from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is scheduled for Wednesday, May 23, 2018 from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Norton Healthcare Learning Center (9500 Ormsby Station Road, Louisville, Kentucky). This symposium will benefit pediatric care…
Norton Children’s Hospital is now offering MRI-guided laser ablation for epilepsy, uncontrollable seizures and deep brain tumors. This new surgical approach is less invasive and can have a much shorter recovery time than a craniotomy. Visualase is the manufacturer. The system makes surgery possible for more high-risk patients with deep brain lesions because the laser probe traces a…
Five percent of all children and 10 percent of teenagers experience migraines, missing twice as much school as their peers. Good sleep hygiene and adequate hydration can help reduce migraines, but that may not be enough, said Elizabeth S. Doll, M.D., pediatric neurologist with Norton Children’s Hospital and University of Louisville Physicians – Child Neurology. Controlling stress might mean…
A HEART MURMUR is the audible vibration of blood flow. Many children have murmurs; the types we hear most commonly vary depending on a child’s age. If we were to listen to the heart for someone’s entire childhood, we likely would hear a murmur in most children. Since only about 1 percent of children have…
BENIGN SYNCOPE (fainting) is a common occurrence in adolescents and older children. It is a brief and sudden loss of consciousness and postural tone with spontaneous recovery. Causes include dehydration or dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, such as vasovagal syncope, also known as neurocardiogenic or reflex syncope, leading to transient loss of adequate cerebral…
No one watching Ethan Byler play on the swing set with his sister, Emily, would point to the toddler and say, “He had a heart transplant.” They wouldn’t know that Ethan was the first child in get a Berlin Heart. They’d never guess this external Benign chest pain inmechanical pump kept Ethan alive until he…
CHEST PAIN is very common in children. Fortunately, serious heart conditions are very rare but include pericarditis, myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, coronary artery abnormalities, aortic dissection and ingestions. Noncardiac causes of chest pain are seen most frequently and include costochondritis, nonspecific chest wall pain, slipping rib syndrome, trauma or muscle strain. Other noncardiac causes of chest…
Children with slowly worsening headaches and vision loss, blurry vision or double vision may have pseudotumor cerebri. Pseudotumor in adults is associated with obesity and is much more frequent in women. In prepubertal children, pseudotumor happens equally among boys and girls and is not associated with weight, according to Darren M. Farber, D.O., neurologist with Norton Children’s Hospital and…