Osetrova Iryna Fedorivna

Work experience: 32 years

Education:

• Bogomolets National Medical University

Membership in associations, societies; attending conferences, thematic improvement courses:

• Pertinent Issues of Perinatal Neurology I and II (2019) congresses;
• Apoplectic Attacks and Cerebrovascular Diseases national congresses;
• specialized training courses: “Acute vestibular syndrome for neurologists”, “MRI for neurologists and neurosurgeons”, “CT for neurologists and surgeons”, “Electroencephalography for neurologists and surgeons”, “Neuroprotection in critical care medicine and neurology”;
• Pertinent Issues of Neurology international conferences;
• attends Medical and Social Rehabilitation of Children with Organic Lesions of Nervous System Ukrainian-Bavarian symposiums on a regular basis;
• DIR Flortime, Ergotherapy and Sensory Integration international conference with practical sub-forums;
• Specifics of Diagnostics and Treatment of Infectious Nervous System Lesions master class;
• course of thematic advanced training of P. L. Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education: “Pertinent issues of pediatric neurology”, “Epilepsy of children”, “Medical emergencies in pediatric neurology”, “Medical and social rehabilitation of children”, “New technologies in medical rehabilitation”.

Areas of professional development:

• in 1991 started the internship in pediatric neurology on the basis of Kyiv Children's Teaching Hospital No. 1, Pediatric Neurology Department of P. L. Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (NMAPE);
• from 1992 – worked as a neurologist in children's polyclinic of the Children’s Local Medical Association in Kharkivskyi district of Kyiv;
• from 1994 – worked as a neurologist of the Children’s Local Medical Association in Dniprovskyi district of Kyiv and a neurologist of preschool institution No. 591 for children with ICP and musculoskeletal disorders;
• from 1994 – worked as a consultant of Kyiv Municipal Psychological, Medical and Educational Guidance Center;
• from 2007 – a pediatric neurologist in Dobrobut Medical Center;
• member of Association of Pediatric Neurologists of Kyiv;
• attends congresses, conferences, courses on a regular basis.

Priority areas in clinical practice:

• follow-up of the children in the first year of their life, including premature children, children with hypoxia, birth injuries experience aimed at early recognition of abnormalities in motor and mental preverbal development;
• follow-up of preschool children, including children with developmental speech and motor delays;
• early diagnostics of autism spectrum disorders;
• headaches;
• tic disorders;
• urinary incontinence;
• sleep disruptions of children;
• children’s checkup before entry in child care center, school to reveal the problems resulting in maladaptation and academical failure.
• "Some parents interpret the information in their own way without understanding the terms during reading of the medicine instructions. A medicine for children that had the difficult birth has appeared on the Ukrainian market recently. One of its ingredients is a biological agent contained in living organisms. It is indicated in the instruction that the agent was inserted in lab rats with the marked radioisotope during medicine testing to understand if it was absorbed externally or not. I prescribed the medicine to a child with the difficult birth history once, however, during the follow-up visit the father answered that the child had not taken it, because the parents had read that the medicine increased the level of radiation. Wit works woe! It is important to explain all the aspects of treatment in completely clear and simple, anticipating all possible misinterpretations.”
• “My patients often wait for the recommendations in connected areas, ask how to raise a child, which toys to buy.”

Tell us about your professional interests other than your specialization:

• rehabilitation (physical, psychological and educational);
• medical genetics.

Hobbies, favorite movies, books:

• “I am interested in reading of fiction.”

Doctor's advice:

• “The cases when we face diagnostics of problems from related specialties or with children with the history of treatment abroad stick in memory. A mother of 5-months old baby born in Norway came to me on the advice of a massage therapist with complaints of the problems with carrying the head. During the examination the baby presented with nystagmus, but a doctor from Norway considered the situation as normal. Our ophthalmologist urgently diagnosed cataract. It was successfully excised in Norway, but the problem was as follows: if they had not performed the surgery until six months of age, the child would have remained blind.” “I attend preventive examinations and get vaccinations on the regular basis.”

Advantages of MM 'Dobrobut':

• “Our neurologists use international protocols for treatment of child epilepsy. We read international neurological journals, take foreign professionals for a model.”
• “Tremendous pace of development of possibilities of examination – MRI, computer tomography, neurosonography have become routine examinations. In Dobrobut we can study the anatomy of brain, vessels, examine cerebral blood flow with ultrasound which is noninvasive and painless, and gives the large amount of information required by a neurologist.”
• “Parents of children with special needs do not receive enough information at the level of common polyclinics. My own experience is that I worked in the medical and psychological guidance center – the institution consulting families with similar problems. Team work with psychologists, psychiatrists, speech therapists and neurologists gave me extensive knowledge and the possibility to advice where to seek psychological and logopedic support. How fast a child can progress in mental and speech development depends on the timeliness of the multidimensional approach.”