Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pediatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends people be under pediatric care
up to the age of 21.[1] A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician, or paediatrician.
Subspecialties of pediatrics include: Adolescent medicine Child abuse pediatrics Clinical informatics Developmental-behavioral pediatrics Electrophysiology Genetics Headache medicine Hospice & palliative care Neonatology
Pain medicine Pediatric allergy and immunology Pediatric cardiology Pediatric critical care Pediatric emergency medicine Pediatric endocrinology Pediatric gastroenterology Pediatric hematology Pediatric infectious disease
Pediatric nephrology Pediatric neuropsychology Pediatric oncology Pediatric neuro-oncology Pediatric pulmonology Pediatric rheumatology Sleep medicine Social pediatrics Sports medicine Transplant hepatology
