Ashok Kapse
Mahavir Super Speciality Hospital, India
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Pediat Therapeut
Child presenting with rash is common occurrence in pediatrics. Rash presenting with fever provides you material for microbiological evaluation, offers you unique opportunity to make clinical diagnosis, and gives clinician vital leads towards severity markers. A case could be approached in different ways however rash based approach is the easiest way for clinical evaluation. Classification and evaluation of rash as erythematous, maculopapular, papulovesicular, petechial, blisterous and so on leads clinician to correct diagnosis and proper management. Correct typing of rash directs clinician towards a careful wait and watch approach in certain clinical situation while dictates him to act emergently in others. The author intends to provide an easy clinico-pictorial approach for a case presenting with rash in day to day practice.
Ashok Kapse is a consulting Pediatrician practicing in Surat, Gujrat, India. Besides owning a private pediatric hospital he is also Head of the Pediatric Department at Mahavir Super Specialty Hospital. He has special interest and skill in infectious diseases. Working along with CDC Atlanta he evolved simple clinical approach for diagnosis and management of dengue illnesses particularly in resource limited situations. Recipient of many oration awards, he is a popular and sought after speaker, and has delivered hundreds of lectures on Dengue, Malaria, Typhoid and antibiotic uses across the India. He has published more than 10 articles in reputed national & international journals and also has contributed chapters in prestigious books.
Email: ashok.kapse@gmail.com
