Clinical Guidelines for Children and Adolescents Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster

City Health Information July 2, 2009 Clinical Guidelines for Children and Adolescents Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster In this issue: More than seven years after the WTC attacks on 9/11, some children and adolescents may still be experiencing physical or mental health effects associated with the disaster. Due to their development, behavior, and physiology, children and adolescents are more susceptible than adults to certain adverse health effects resulting from disasters. Pediatricians and other child health clinicians should know how to identify, evaluate, treat and, if necessary, refer pediatric patients with potential WTC-related physical or mental health conditions. Physicians should also consider WTC-related health effects among young adults who were exposed as adolescents. Learn more City Health Information is a publication produced by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as a primary means of communicating public health information to the City's medical care community.