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…
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…
Living A Rash Hand-To-Mouth Existence
An 11-month-old boy presents after developing rashes on his hands, feet, and around his mouth.…
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…
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…
Toxic Torticollis
A four year-old girl presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with a four-day history of fever and sore throat…
Time for PIMS-TS
Understanding paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (PIMS-TS)…
Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS-TS)
Understanding paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (PIMS-TS).…
Intracranial Infections
CNS infections are relatively rare, but form a very important differential diagnosis in the unwell patient presenting to the ED.…
Intracranial Infections
Intracranial infections (also called central nervous system infections or CNS infections) are relatively rare, but form a very important differential diagnosis in the unwell patient…
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…
Just a viral infection
6-month-old boy brought in because he can’t breathe.…
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 …
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…
Lemons and Lymes
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.…
The Forest
The forbidden forest is home to many dangerous creatures, where an encounter with even the smallest ticks can leave a big impact.…
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…
March 2019
March 2019 Podcast…
Crash & Burn
An SAQ designed to consolidate your knowledge on the features and management of Kawasaki disease.…