Pediatric medicine is a specially designed medicine especially for infants and children. Pediatric medicine is the combination of both pediatrics and emergency medicine. It is comprised of the prevention, diagnosis and management of a wide range of diseases and hospital-based interventional procedures.
Pediatric surgery is a sub specialty ofsurgeryinvolving the surgery of fetuses, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. It is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.
Pediatric cardiology is concerned with diseases of the heart in the growing and developing individual. As well as expertise in heart disease, pediatric cardiologists also need a thorough grounding in general pediatrics, in order to provide all-round patient care. Pediatric cardiologists broadly treat congenital heart disease (present at birth), arrhythmia (variations in heartbeat rhythm) and disturbances of circulatory function.
Neurology is the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of disorders of the nervous system. The nervous system is a complex, sophisticated system that regulates and coordinates body activities. It has two major divisions: Central nervous system: the brain and spinal cord
Orthopedics is a medical specialty that focuses on the diagnosis, correction, prevention, and treatment of patients with skeletal deformities - disorders of the bones, joints, muscles, ligaments, tendons, nerves and skin. These elements make up the musculoskeletal system.
Endocrinology is the study of medicine that relates to the endocrine system, which is the system that controls hormones. It is concerned with the integration of developmental events proliferation, growth, and differentiation, and the psychological or behavioral activities of metabolism growth and development function, sleep digestion respiration,excretion, mood, stress, lactation, movement, reproduction, and sensory perception hormones.
Ophthalmology is a branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases of the eye and visual system. The eye, its surrounding structures and the visual system can be affected by a number of clinical conditions. Ophthalmology involves diagnosis and therapy of such conditions, along with microsurgery.