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Resources for School Nurses

• Our Medical Articles Section includes pages about pediatric CFS, neurally mediated hypotension, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, juvenile fibromyalgia, and related conditions such as chronic headaches, pelvic pain, sleep disturbance, allergies, and irritable bowel syndrome
  
  
• Evaluating CFIDS: A Checklist for School Nurses by David S. Bell, MD
  
  
• Iger Neurocognitive Assessment a tool to monitor changes in the neurocognitive symptoms of students with CFS
  
  
• Sample IEPs and 504 Plans for students with CFS, OH, or POTS
  
  
• List of accommodations that may be helpful for students with CFS
  
  
• Treating Pediatric CFS by David S. Bell, MD, FAAP -- This article is available in two formats:
  
  
  • Web Page: The CFS Research Review, Fall 2000
    
    
  • PDF file: School Nurse News. March 2001;18(2):12-16. In addition to Dr. Bell's article, this file includes a letter to school nurses introducing them to pediatric CFS resources.
  
  
  
• Questions and Answers About Fibromyalgia    National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases December 1999
  
  
• Juvenile Fibromyalgia by Angelo P Giardino, MD, PhD - Detailed review of this pediatric differential diagnosis and brief introduction to management eMedicine Journal Jan 2003
  
  
• Musculoskeletal pain in adolescents: Diagnostic criteria are distinct from those in adults by Caroline S. Kim, MD, MPH  Postgraduate Medicine April 2002
  
  
• Orthostatic Intolerance - An introduction to the subject by David S. Bell, MD Lyndonville News May 2000
  
  
• Orthostatic Intolerance: An Overview by Julian M. Stewart, MD, PhD  eMedicine Journal, May 14 2002, Volume 3, Number 5
  
  
• Office Testing Procedure for Orthostatic Intolerance by David S. Bell, MD, FAAP Lyndonville News, September 2000
  
  
• Physical Maneuvers for Reducing Orthostatic Intolerance Symptoms During Upright Posture by Peter Rowe, MD  Youth Allied By CFIDS, Spring 1997
  
  
• Do you have a question not answered here? Post it in our forum and get feedback from medical professionals, educators, young people, and their families.
  

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