We are pleased to announce our PEM Starter Pack with 12 blogs rolled into one handy iBook…
A child with a fever
Febrile children compete for the most common non-traumatic paediatric presentation in the ED, causing concern for parents worldwide. Your mission: to find the source.…
Meningococcal Disease and Meningococcal Meningitis
Recognising the clinical features of invasive meningococcal disease in children…
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…
A stag do abroad
34-year-old male with malaise, myalgia, bilateral neck swelling and a headache…
RCEM Blog Book 2
Temp Taking and how to Take it by Andy Neill, A new Dawn for Stroke Patients by Nikki Abela, and Arrest Asthma by James Yates…
Bell’s Palsy in Children
Bell’s palsy is a relatively uncommon condition presenting to primary care. Despite a benign course for most children with Bell’s palsy, there are a number of serious causes of facial para…
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?…
Temp Taking and How to Take It
Its probably fair to say that few of us give any great thought on how a temperature is measured…
Feverish Illness in Children
We all feel the pressure when managing the feverish child. Differentiating simple viral illness from Serious Bacterial Infection can be challenging in the Emergency Department and requires good clinic…
The Twitching Tot
The paramedics arrive with a 3-year-old boy who has had two seizures today. He has known developmental delay but has no history of seizures previously…
Toxic Torticollis
A four year-old girl presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with a four-day history of fever and sore throat…
Epistaxis in a child
A 7 year old girl is brought into the emergency department by her mother on a busy Saturday afternoon after experiencing several nose bleeds at home over the preceding few hours…
Holiday Sore Throat: are Antibiotics required?
You take a history from a 16 year old American boy and his parents who are on holiday in the UK for the next 2 weeks. He is complaining of a severe sore throat of 5 days duration…