Survival rates in both critically and chronically ill infants and children have improved dramatically in recent years and new challenges exist in the nursing care given to these patients. For example, children in intensive care environments are especially at risk. The pressure relief requirements of the pediatric patient are significantly different to those of the adult patient. In children under the age of 36 months, the ears and occiput are the areas most at risk of pressure injury as a result of the fact that this area is proportionately the largest and heaviest bony prominence. This makes require specialist pressure redistributing devices for the pediatric patient. Likewise, weight based medication dosage is required to treat these young patients during illness. Doctors need to rely on accurate information to treat and safeguard their young patients, which point towards the need for an information system exclusively designed to address their unique intricacies.
Amrita Pediatric Care Application addresses all special requirements for young patients, facilitating high quality pediatric care. The system allows doctors to consider all 'important' diagnoses for the patient, implying safe diagnostic assessment in nearly all the cases, thus bringing meaningful change in the quality of diagnostic decision making.
