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Delivering the highest level of trauma care
Transport team rolls out high-tech truck

Children’s is home to the busiest pediatric trauma center in New England, and one of the 10 busiest in the country. Recently re-verified as a Level-1 pediatric trauma center by the American College of Surgeons, Children’s is one of about a dozen hospitals in the United States to provide the very highest level of pediatric trauma care.

The Trauma Program is supported by a Critical Care Transport Team and Children’s Emergency Communications Center...

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Q&A: Eating disorders
Estherann Grace, MD

What are the health risks associated with an eating disorder?

For the prepubertal child, inadequate nutrition (anorexia nervosa) will stunt growth and delay pubertal development. In early- to mid-adolescence, the starved state affects all systems of the body, but has a particularly harmful effect on the endocrine system and bone metabolism, resulting in irreversible osteoporosis. The primary concern in bulimia is death secondary to hypokalemia. Also, the regurgitated stomach acid can cause severe gum disease with resultant loss of teeth. BED results in significant obesity with associated insulin resistance, resulting in menstrual irregularities and eventually type II diabetes.

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