Struggling to negotiate CT imaging requests for your paediatric patients? Let the guiding principles of ALARA come to your rescue!…
Tired purple legs
A 7-year-old girl presents with an acute, painful hot knee and a red-purple non-blanching rash.…
April 2019
This month we have DVT guidelines | CRT vs Lactate Guided Fluid Resuscitation in Septic Shock | IAEM PoCUS 01 SHOC ED Study | DFTB18 Elliot Long | Stabbings in children | Non operative appendicitis ma…
A Baby with a Bug or a Belly Ache Bugging Him?
Author: Francesca Cleugh / Editor: Nicola McDonald / Reviewer: Michael Perry / Codes: / Published: 19/02/2019 / Review Date: 19/02/2022 An 8 month old boy is brought to A&E by his mother. He becam…
My tummy hurts!
A young boy with abdominal pain and distension is brought in by his father. The triage nurse mentions that he is hypertensive, with microscopic haematuria on his urine dipstick.…
FRCEM Primary Paper 1
FRCEM Primary Examination Single Best Answer…
Let’s twist again…the acute scrotum and torsion
This session is about the assessment and management of patients presenting with testicular pain to the emergency department…
Abdominal Pain
Abdominal pain is a reasonably common presentation in paediatrics-increasing as the child gets older…
PEM Starter pack book
We are pleased to announce our PEM Starter Pack with 12 blogs rolled into one handy iBook…
May 2017
Welcome back to the RCEM Learning podcast for May 2017…
A Classic Case!
A 30-day old ex-36/40 twin, male infant attends the ED with his mother due to concern regarding vomiting of 4 days duration…
Abdominal Pain – ‘Could he just have a chest film please’?
A 14 year old boy with attends the Paediatric Emergency Dept with a 2 day history of worsening colicky central abdominal pain…
Bowel Obstruction
Intestinal obstruction is an important cause of the acute abdomen, accounting for up to 5% of emergency admissions to surgical services.…