Each year at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) Annual Scientific Conference, the prestigious Elizabeth Molyneux Prize is awarded. The prize, named in honour of Professor Elizabeth Molyneu…
The Shocked Neonate
A 22-year-old lady delivers a 36-week-old baby unexpectedly at home. The baby was initially pink with an Apgar of 9, and a birth weight of 7lbs…
Cheer up buttercup
Not one, but two teeny tiny yellow wailing babies present to your Paediatric ED! Their worried parents ask you: “why have the twins turned yellow?”…
Mellow Yellow
What will you do when your weekend shift in the Paediatric Emergency Department turns into seeing a stream of yellow babies?…
Do away with the Heartache – ECGs in Children
ECGs can be challenging, right? And so can children. Add the two together and..arrghh – Paediatric ECGs!!…
FRCEM Primary Paper 2
FRCEM Primary Examination Single Best Answer…
Neonatal nuggets part 1: skin rashes, jaundice, lumps and bumps
Neonates can present with normal physiology to the paediatric emergency department. Studies have suggested that 1.9% of all patients present within the first month of life…
PEM Starter pack book
We are pleased to announce our PEM Starter Pack with 12 blogs rolled into one handy iBook…
The Unwell Neonate and Infant
The neonatal period (…
Urinary Tract Infections in Children
This session looks at the techniques available to collect urine samples from children in an emergency department. It discusses the evidence basis and the relative merits of each technique…
RCEMLearning iBook 3
iBook 3 including ‘Looking like Maggie Simpson’ , ‘Pem and EX PREMS’, and ‘prolonged jaundice’…
Maggie Simpson’s Second Audition – Prolonged Jaundice
Prolonged jaundice is different from early jaundice as it is jaundice which persists for 14 days in a baby who was born at term (37 weeks or more gestation), or to 21 days in a pre-term baby born befo…
Paediatric heart murmurs & what to make of them
Children are often found to have heart a murmur when seen in the Emergency Department (ED), but when does a heart murmur actually mean something?…
June 2017
The new podcast for June 2017…
Looking like Maggie Simpson
It’s a common card to pick up in some paeds EDs – the yellow newborn. But whilst this can be an ‘easy’ one, such tiny babies can strike fear into the hearts of some!…
PEM and ex-Prems
Advances in neonatal care have resulted in more ex-prems being discharged into the community, and these fragile neonates tend to be frequent fliers…
When Weight Loss isn’t a good thing: Neonates in the ED – Growth & Feeding
One of the most common reasons for newborns to be sent in to the ED for assessment is weight loss…
Tiny Tot’s Ticker Flicker
A 5-week term baby is brought in by his parents with a 24-hour history of poor feeding. No fever or infective features…