General Pediatric Ambulatory Care Clinic Division
The General Pediatric Outpatient Clinic at King Abdullah Specialized Children's Hospital provides excellent care to babies, kids, and teens from birth to age 14. General pediatricians are very important in the care of kids.
The general pediatric ACC team cares for patients from different departments, such as neonatology, emergency, family medicine, primary health care clinics, and others.
General pediatricians care for most of the problems that can happen to children. Still, in some cases, they need help from experts. Our team has access to pediatric subspecialists throughout our hospital, so reaching specialty care is easy.
Mission of General Pediatric Ambulatory Care
Our goal in the General Pediatric ACC is to give the highest quality care to patients who need general pediatrics and those with long-term conditions. We also want to ensure that our patients can get the services offered by pediatric and surgical sub-specialists in our hospital without any problems.
Vision of General Pediatric Ambulatory Care
- The highest level of general clinical care for children as a whole.
- To give children with special needs services for second-level care that focus on treating common conditions.
- To be an active part of our community by giving the patients and their families educational activities and books to read.
Objectives of General Pediatric Ambulatory Care
Our aim is to prevent, detect, and manage any physical, emotional, social, or developmental issue that may arise from birth to adolescent.
General Pediatrics clinic provides secondary care services that focus on the treatment and prevention of common conditions for children.
Refer the patients to pediatric sub specialists throughout our hospital.
General Pediatric Ambulatory Care Programs
We see Bronchial Asthma, constipation, failure to thrive, obesity, hydronephrosis, eczema, and many other general conditions in the general pediatric clinic. We have the following kinds of visits:
- New patients are referred from NGHA's different specialties and services. After they go to the emergency room, patients can be followed up on, treated, and looked into.
- TCC (Tissue Culture Clinic): follow-up patients with positive NON-sterile culture from the TCC screening clinic for physical assessment.
- Follow-up with patients who need general pediatrics, such as those with long-term illnesses.
- High-risk vaccination clinic for people with long-term, complex health problems
- Neonatal Early Discharge Clinic: To check on newborns who left the hospital before their second exam.
- The tissue Culture screening Clinic (TCC) is where non-sterile cultures taken from patients who went to the emergency room can be checked.
- Down syndrome clinic: To keep track of people with Down syndrome using special rules since people with Down syndrome have multiple health problems that need to be checked on often.
- Outpatient teams work in the Cleft Lip and Palate Clinic and the Spina Bifida Clinic, both multi-disciplinary clinics.
Community services:
General Pediatric Ambulatory Care Education and Training
General Pediatric Ambulatory Care Achievements and KPIs
Accepting new referral within 4 weeks
Booking post Emergency urgent visit with 3-5 days
Accommodating neonate for early discharge visit with 2-3 days post discharge date
Screening all Non sterile culture done in Emergency visit with 48 -72 hour
Zero pending waiting list
General Pediatric Ambulatory Clinical Care Outcomes
More than 10000 booked appointment under ACC team:
We screen more than 2000 TCC screening clinic patient for non-sterile culture.
General Pediatric Ambulatory Research and Publications
- Lymphangioma of the tongue in a pediatric patient,
Abdullah AlGhamdi, Maryam AlBaqam —?
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Megacytic microcolon-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome associated with megaesophagus. Case report.
Amal Al Harbi, Khalil Al Tawil, Stanley J Crankson. Pediatric Surgery International 1999.
- Al-Eissa YA,
Al-Harbi AH, Abu-Taleb A Al-Sebaiay KM, Al-Hammad FA, Alawi AM. Pattern of infections in children presenting with fever in a tertiary care hospital Emergency Room, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Middle East J. Emerg Md 2000 (in press). —?
- Al-Eissa YA, Al-Sanie AM, Al Alola SA, Al Shaalan MA, Ghazal SS,
Al-Harbi AM, Al-Wakeel AS. Parental perceptions of fever in children. Ann Saudi Med 2000 (in press).
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Kagalwalla A,
Altaraif I,
Al Shamsan L, et al. Primary sclerosing cholangitis in Arab Children; report of four cases and literature review. Gastroenterology and Nutrition 1997; 24: 146-172.
- Al Shamsan L, Al Essa M, Al Mutair A, Al Ashwal A, Sakati N, Ozand PT. Hyperinsulinism and hyperanmmonemia; a case report. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 1998; 21:671-673.
Al Shamsan L, Seayed S, Palker V, Al Essa M. Port-wine stain, non-communicating hydrocephalus and ventricular septal defect: a case report. Cur Paedtr Res 1998; 3:49-54. —?
Al Essa M, Bakheet S,
Al Shamsan L, Patay 2, Ozand PT.
18Flour-2 deoxy- glucose (FDG) PET Scan of the brain in 3methylgutaconic aciduria and MRI correlation. Brain & Development 1999; 21:24-9.
Al Essa M,
Al Shamsan L, Ozand PT.
18Fluro-2 deoxyglucose PET Scan of the brain in Ethylmalonic aciduria. European J of Pediatric Neurology, 1999; 3: 125-127.
Al Essa M,
Al Shamsan L, Ozand PT. Alkaptonuria, the first case report in Saudi Arabia and review of the literature. Annals of Saudi Medicine 1998; 18: 442-444.
Al Essa M, Bakheet S, Patay Z,
Al Shamsan L et al.
18Fluor-2 deoxyglucose (18FDG) PET Scan of the brain in propionic academia. Clinical and MRI Correlation. Brain & Development 1999; 21:312-317.
Al Shamsan L, Alawi A, Crankson S, Sadoon H. Charge association and infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Clinical Pediatric 2000; 39:623.
Abdullah A, Al Zaben A,
Al Shamsan L. Auto immune hepatitis in children in Saudi Arabia. Paediatric Gastroenterology 2000. —?
Al-Eissa YA, Al Zaben AA, Al Wakeel AS, Al Alola SA, Al Shaalan MA, Al Amir AA,
Al Shamsan L. Physician perception of fever in children. Fact and myth. Saudi med J, 2001; 22 (2): 124-8
Al Shamsan L, Weir N, Palkar V, Al Hatlani M, Al Banyan E. A 7-year old boy with recurrent attacks of streptococcus pneumonia meningitis, Annals of Saudi Medicine 2005.
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Al shamsan L,
Al Harbi A, Al Fakeeh K, Al Banyan a. The value of renal us in children with first episodes of UTI. Annals of Saudi Medicine 2009,29(1):46-49.
- Factor behind using the Kayi as modality of treatment for children below 5 year in KAMC, Riyadh. —?
On going researches:
Assessment of Parents' Knowledge and Background in Child's Normal Development in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A Cross Sectional Survey
The Factors Behind Using the Kayi (traditional cautery) as Modality of Treatment for Children Below 5 Years of Age in KAMC. Riyadh.
The clinically significant need of CBC screening test in 9-12 months old infants in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Case report, infant with fibromatosis colli
Case report, temporal AV malformation post trauma
General Pediatric Ambulatory Care Leadership
Dr. Maryam Al Bagami
Section head Pediatric Ambulatory Care.