High Blood
Pressure in Children and Adolescents: New Tools for Clinicians
If you are a pediatrician, pediatric nurse
practitioner, or school nurse, you may have already read about The Fourth
Report on the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure in
Children and Adolescents in Pediatrics the official journal of the
American Academy of Pediatrics. However family physicians, community clinics,
physician assistants, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) centers, and hospitals
also come into contact with children who may be hypertensive or
prehypertensive. All health professionals who work with children or train
others to work with children can benefit from the additional tools featured
below that have been developed since the report appeared.
Get the ReportConsiderable advances
have been made in detection, evaluation, and management of hypertension in
children and adolescents. It is now apparent that primary hypertension is
detectable in the young and occurs commonly. The long-term health risks for
hypertensive children and adolescents can be substantial; therefore, it is
important that clinical measures be taken to reduce these risks and optimize
health outcomes.
 The purpose of this report is to update clinicians on
the latest scientific evidence regarding blood pressure in children and to
provide recommendations based on available evidence and consensus expert
opinion of the working group when evidence was lacking. The report is now
available as an attractive publication from the NHLBI.
Features:
- Definitions for high blood pressure and
prehypertension in children
- Revised blood pressure tables that now include the
50th, 90th, 95th, and 99th percentiles by gender, age, and height
- Therapeutic lifestyle changes for hypertensive
children
- Evaluation for early target-organ damage, secondary
causes, and co-existing conditions in children and adolescents with
hypertension
- Reduction of other cardiovascular risk factors
- Identification of hypertensive children who need
evaluation for sleep disorders
- Revised recommendations for use of antihypertensive
drug therapy
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Download a Synopsis in Personal Digital
Assistant (PDA) FormHere's a useful tool to help the busy clinician at the
point of care. It distills key clinical concepts and decision points from the
full report, and offers simple menus for evaluation steps. It also has two
interactive calculators. One gives blood pressure percentile from patient
parameters and a second calculates left ventricular mass from echo cardio data.
*No cost* to download the version for your PDA:
PalmOS® version
PocketPC 2003
version
PocketPC 2002
version
Need to Give a Talk? Need informational slide sets on high blood pressure
in children? Click the following link to retrieve slides for use in computer
slide shows, conventional slide presentations, or for online viewing via the
NHLBI Web site. Great for faculty in medical schools and colleges who train
nurses and allied health professionals! Also good for local professional
meetings or in-service training.
Choose your format and download
from:
http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/nhbpep_slds/menu.htm#hbpch
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