Children and young people exposed prenatally to alcohol

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) has published a guideline providing evidence-based recommendations on measurement of alcohol consumption in pregnancy and consensus-based recommendations on identification of children at risk of FASD, criteria for diagnosis and use of FASD as a descriptor, the medical assessment, physical examination, sentinel facial features, neurodevelopmental assessment, the multidisciplinary assessment team, special considerations in the neurodevelopmental assessment, and management and follow up of children and young people affected by PAE. More information here. Posted 27 May 2019

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