A 14-year-old male has a painful eye following a recent insect bite to his eyelid. He has developed double vision.
A 14-year-old male has a painful eye following a recent insect bite to his eyelid. He has developed double vision.
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!
An 11-year-old female re-presenting with an unusual facial swelling.
Amy is a girl who has Down syndrome. She is not a Down’s girl, or even a Down’s
A 6-week-old infant presents with recurrent vomiting. How will you manage him?
A neonate presents to the emergency department with significant jaundice.
A 4-year-old presents with hypoglycaemia and all you can think of is a slushy?
Children (mainly), and even some adults, like to put a range of objects in any orifice they can find. Once they’re in, they come to us in the ED to sort out whether they’re really there, and how best to extract them.
You diagnose DKA in a child, how much fluids do you prescribe?
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An 11-year-old boy is seen in the accident and emergency department by an SHO.
A 7-year-old girl presents with an acute, painful hot knee and a red-purple non-blanching rash.
A 17-year-old female presents with abdominal pain one day after falling from a bicycle.
When I was asked to talk about assessment of (de)hydration in children, I accepted without a second thought. “How hard could it be?”, I guessed, “I do this every single day”.
Communicating with little people?
A 21-day-old term baby presents to your emergency department in respiratory distress and appears dusky blue.
A young child presents to your Emergency Department with non specific upper respiratory tract symptoms. You’ve seen him before on a previous visit.
A miscellany of paediatric procedures
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.
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