Children can be distracting, but how can we also distract them?…
Inexpensive Teaching Models for Fascia Iliaca Blocks
Most of us are convinced that fascia iliac blocks for pain relief are fabulous. Models to teach and practice on can be expensive. Inspired by one of the ED registrars I work with, Dr Grace O’Connell, …
Lessening the Pain through Play
Visiting hospital can be scary at any age. Facilitating a positive hospital experience for children is important because many of them will require further attendances and treatments in their lifetime.…
Pinch me, thumbs up and give me four
An 8-year-old girl is brought to the ED by her mother after having fallen from a climbing frame.…
The Limping Child (Perthes disease)
Investigating a child presenting with a limping gait to your Paediatric Emergency Department.…
A Teste-ing ED Shift
You are about to see two patients both of whom have testicular pain…
Ketamine Kids Procedural Sedation
A 4-year-old girl fell whilst playing in the playground on a metal slide and sustained a 3 cm open wound to her left cheek and upper lip.…
Make it better: analgesia in the ED
There is nothing that defines medicine more than the need to “make it better”, and so, nailing analgesia is such a fundamental part of being a practitioner, especially in children.…
Fascia Iliaca Block
Understand the nerves blocked by the fascia iliaca block and its indications including pain relief for fractured neck of femur patients…
It’s all in the kiss
Is love in the air? …or is it the kissing disease?
It was only a kiss, how did it end up like this? A teenage boy got more than he was bargaining for after an innocent kiss with his girlfriend but do …
Hello ALARA… Goodbye frying scans!
Struggling to negotiate CT imaging requests for your paediatric patients? Let the guiding principles of ALARA come to your rescue!…
Not So Hip
A 6 year old boy with a background of sickle cell disease presents to the emergency department with two days of worsening right hip pain and unable to weight bear…
Not all kids bounce
3-year-old with a head and arm injury following an accidental fall.…
I’ve Got Your Back
4 year old child unable to weight bear, and inconsolable crying…
Lure of a red herring
A teenage boy presents with a painful scrotum then remembers a traumatic incident…
Minor Injuries
It’s safe to say you will likely see a few of these, as minor injuries are a very common occurrence in childhood with around 20-30% of all paediatric attendances to the Emergency Department invo…
PEM Starter pack book
We are pleased to announce our PEM Starter Pack with 12 blogs rolled into one handy iBook…
Ketamine Sedation in Children
Ketamine sedation is ideal for short, painful or frightening procedures.…
Ketamine Sedation in Children
This session is based upon the CEM College guideline on Ketamine Sedation of Children in Emergency Departments…
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?…