Here are 4 peer-reviewed articles. Hope this helps.
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1: Pediatr Med Chir. 1993 Jul-Aug;15(4):429-31.
[The environment and health protection of the child]
Tarallo MR, Grandi E, Tarallo D, Tarallo S.
The authors outline the relationship between environment and children health
care. They describe the environmental situations able to produce damages to the
children's health.
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2: Public Health. 1981 Nov;95(6):353-5.
The needs of a family following a fatal road traffic accident: a case study.
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3: Klin Padiatr. 1979 Jul;191(4):395-405.
[Long-acting traumas following hospitalisation (author's transl)]
The article reports on 50 children with hospital (operation) traumas presented
many years later to the doctor or educational consultant because of disturbed
behaviour basing on an anxiety neurosis combined with a symbiotic mother
fixation. In these cases, there was a clear connection between the triggering
traumatising event the the existing symptom pattern. Most of the children had
been admitted during infancy once or several times to special wards without
sufficient psychological care and with restricted visiting hours. Tonsillectomy
and strabotomy, as well as equilibrating operations, have proved to the
particularly traumatising, especially in infants. This is evident even after
several years and shows up during psychodiagnostic examination. Children who
have suffered an accident and are admitted to hospital in a state of shock, are
particularly susceptible to the hospital separation trauma. Preventive and
curative psychohygienic measures are described. The mother's presence in the
hospital has always remained the most reliable protection, from the infant's
aspect, in all danger situations, including hospitalisation.
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4: Prakt Anaesth. 1975 Oct;10(5):294-301.
[The injured child in the intensive care unit (author's transl)]
For children the circumstances of the intensive care unit (ICU) indubitably
present a particular psychological stress. For a child awaking from a state of
traumatic unconsciousness in the ICU, and who has to be further treated there,
this is an even more powerful psychological extreme situation. Extreme situation
of this kind is liable to provoke a particular abnormal psychic "emergency
reaction". This reaction can follow the pattern of a faigned-death reflex and in
a such a way mime a coma vigile (apallic state). The circumstances and the
interaction of factors responsible for the arise of such a primitive reaction
are discussed. With the help of a representative case the clinical
manifestations, course and treatment of the pseudo-apallic syndrome ("Sleeping
Beauty syndrome") are presented. The important role of ICU staff for the
prevention and treatment of such reactive disturbances are emphasized. |
