ASD Randoms
Feb 10, 2015 6:08:12 GMT -5
Post by mrsbuttinski on Feb 10, 2015 6:08:12 GMT -5
A local hospital recently opened NJ's first ASD-friendly pediatric ER.
www.capitalhealth.org/news/2014%20News%20Articles/Autism%20Friendly%20ER%20Opening
On the surface this seems like a swell idea, but really? ASD isn't a rare thing; seems to me any ER should be capable of accommodating patients with ASD.
I'm troubled by two notions here. The notion that it's a pediatric ER. I mean, it's not as if people with ASD drop off the face of the earth on their 21st birthday. What happens when lower functioning adult needs the same sorts of considerations a young child might? Because those on spectrum often have very high thresholds for pain, conditions like broken bones, testicular torsion/cancer and appendicitis are often first seen by an ER rather than a PCP especially if that person is in a group home setting.
Could it have anything to do with the fact that kiddos on spectrum in this neck of the woods tend to be on their parents health insurance as well as nonmeans-tested Medicaid? And adults on spectrum don't?
The other is that their press release includes a not so subtle pitch for their own nascent ASD program?
A 'come for the ER and stay for the neuroimaging" sort of situation? It seems odd that this is a neurology department rather than developmental pediatrics.
www.capitalhealth.org/news/2014%20News%20Articles/Autism%20Friendly%20ER%20Opening
On the surface this seems like a swell idea, but really? ASD isn't a rare thing; seems to me any ER should be capable of accommodating patients with ASD.
I'm troubled by two notions here. The notion that it's a pediatric ER. I mean, it's not as if people with ASD drop off the face of the earth on their 21st birthday. What happens when lower functioning adult needs the same sorts of considerations a young child might? Because those on spectrum often have very high thresholds for pain, conditions like broken bones, testicular torsion/cancer and appendicitis are often first seen by an ER rather than a PCP especially if that person is in a group home setting.
Could it have anything to do with the fact that kiddos on spectrum in this neck of the woods tend to be on their parents health insurance as well as nonmeans-tested Medicaid? And adults on spectrum don't?
The other is that their press release includes a not so subtle pitch for their own nascent ASD program?
A 'come for the ER and stay for the neuroimaging" sort of situation? It seems odd that this is a neurology department rather than developmental pediatrics.