Neurological examination of children Examination technique-Clinical approach-Complexity signature

In the clinical and practical routine, the assessment of a child's neurological status plays an important role for the differential diagnostic classification of acute or chronic conditions and for assessing the developmental status. The pediatric neurological examination represents a highly informative, comprehensive approach to the child as a person, the clinical concerns and nonorgan-specific development. This article presents the practical implementation of a situation and context-appropriate examination with six neurological dimensions. The innovative visualizing tools NeuroMap and complexity signature are suitable to standardize the examination and documentation of the findings. This structuring strengthens the medical competence in the examination, assessment and decision making, high quality in the treatment is generated, orientation to the temporal and structural planning is given and the dialogue between general pediatrics and neuropediatrics is emphasized.