A 7-year-old girl presents to the Paediatric A&E with a 3 week history of increasing pain in her right hip.…

A 7-year-old girl presents to the Paediatric A&E with a 3 week history of increasing pain in her right hip.…
Investigating a child presenting with a limping gait to your Paediatric Emergency Department.…
A 4-year-old boy presented to ED due to a 5 day history of general malaise, pyrexia, coughing and a rash. He also developed pains in his legs over the last 24 hours, causing him difficulty in standing…
A 15-month-old presents to your Emergency Department with a rash and swelling on both legs and feet. The patient has a mild fever but is otherwise well.…
A 12-year-old boy presents with left knee pain.…
We’ve all seen limping children. Maybe some of us have even had limping children. Some departments have excellent management strategies and pathways. Some don’t. Here’s some of our t…
Harry is a two-year-old boy who presents to the ED with a one day history of a limp…
A 3-year-old girl presents to ED with a swollen left knee, limping. The swelling had started 9 days previously but had not initially caused any distress…
A six-year-old boy attends the Emergency Department with a two week history of pain in the foot, which had developed into a limp over the preceding 2 days.…
In late June, whilst on a school trip visiting a local nature reserve centre, a group of children were having a picnic and drinking lemonade after their play time.…
A 7-year-old girl presents with an acute, painful hot knee and a red-purple non-blanching rash.…
FRCEM Primary Examination Single Best Answer…
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…
Sudden onset of refusal to walk and leg pain in a well young child.…
4 year old child unable to weight bear, and inconsolable crying…
Eye problems account for approximately 6% of all attendances to an Emergency Department (ED) in the UK…
Radiology interpretation…
Commonly, not much is known about transient synovitis (TS), and for many ED clinicians, it is a diagnosis of exclusion, as when a patient presenting with hip pain…
An 11-year-old boy presented to the Paediatric Emergency Department with a swelling to the lateral aspect of his left elbow.…
This toddler has no medical history of note. He is the 3rd of 4 children under 6 years. His mum cannot attend as she has a 1-week old and is breastfeeding…