Common Issues for CYSHCN
The Common Issues section of the Medical Home Portal provides clinical information about health issues for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). The topics are:
- Children with Short Stature Born Small for Gestational Age
- Contraception & Menstrual Management
- Cranial Deformation and Craniosynostosis
- Developmental Coordination Disorder
- Drooling in Children with Special Health Care Needs
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
- Integrative Medicine for CYSHCN
- Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS)
- Oral Health
- Osteoporosis and Pathologic Fractures
- Pain in Children with Special Health Care Needs
- Procedural Anxiety
- Puberty and Pubertal Variations
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Seizures & Epilepsy
- CBD for Neurologic Conditions in Children
- Childhood Absence Epilepsy
- Childhood Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes (CECTS)
- Epilepsy Surgery
- Evaluation & Treatment of a First Unprovoked Seizure
- Febrile Seizures
- Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME)
- Ketogenic Diet
- SUDEP (Sudden Death with Epilepsy)
- Tapering Antiepileptic Medication
- Self-injurious Behavior
- Sensory Processing/Integration Disorder
- Sexuality & Children with Disabilities
- Skin and Wound Care for CYSHCN
- Sleep Issues
- Syncope
- Toe-Walking
- Toilet Training Children with Complex Medical Conditions
- Types of Hearing Loss
Related, more in-depth material for specific common conditions can be found at:
Diagnosis and management information for specific conditions can be found in the Portal's Diagnoses & Conditions section.
Authors & Reviewers
Initial publication: February 2016; last update/revision: February 2023
Current Authors and Reviewers:
Author: | Medical Home Team |
Authoring history
2022: first version: Medical Home TeamA |
AAuthor;
CAContributing Author;
SASenior Author;
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