García GRJ

Language: Spanish
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Page: 49-55
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ABSTRACT

Objective: To delineate an algorithm of actuation designed for the attention to children and adolescents with acute torticollis and to offer them an efficient and opportune medical assistance.
Development: The attention of children and adolescents with acute torticollis requires that the physician may consider a group of disorders with different outcomes. Previously he should have a strategy for diagnosis that it may let him to arrive to quick and correct conclusions. Here is presented a proposition about the assistance to patients with acute torticollis. The principles are organized and in the first line are considered evolution characteristic of events. Next, is important the inclusion of patients in groups with common characteristics that allow to carry out an approach to a cluster of illnesses. Lastly, should be included some suggestions about key investigations in occasion of suspicion of one specific disorder or even when there is not sufficient clear orientation of what happens.
Conclusions: The delineated algorithm of actuation in children and adolescents with acute torticollis may to facilitate the correct and opportune action although this proposition only constitutes an orientation. With the professional experience and knowledge, the algorithm may be modified according different situations during the attention of one pediatric patient affected by acute torticollis.

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