The forbidden forest is home to many dangerous creatures, where an encounter with even the smallest ticks can leave a big impact.…
Crash & Burn: Kawasaki disease
An SAQ designed to consolidate your knowledge on the features and management of Kawasaki disease.…
Rashes – PEM Induction
Rashes are difficult to diagnose in both children and adults. The key is to be able to identify the important types (anaphylaxis urticaria, meningitis, non-accidental injury), and then manage to learn…
Common Childhood Exanthems
Children commonly present to the emergency department with a febrile illness and a rash…
Living A Rash Hand-To-Mouth Existence
An 11-month-old boy presents after developing rashes on his hands, feet, and around his mouth.…
Cellulitis and Other Skin Infections
Impetigo, erysipelas, cellulitis and necrotising fasciitis represent a spectrum of soft tissue infections…
Cellulitis and Other Skin Infections
This session covers the cause, clinical features, treatment and management of impetigo, cellulitis, erysipelas and necrotising fasciitis…
It’s time to get this niggling pain off our chest… An approach to chest pain in Paediatric ED
Chest pain in children and young people is thankfully, in the most part, not too concerning. But explaining exactly what the cause of it is, can be tricky. And when do we need to worry?…
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).…
Psor Throat
A 16-year-old boy attends the ED complaining of a 1 day history of an itchy rash on the trunk and upper arms…
A Spotty Boy
A new rash in a 5-year-old boy.…
Itches in my Britches
A 7-year-old boy is brought to your ED by his father feeling unwell with a very itchy rash.…
Bee careful kids
A stinging tale of paediatric anaphylaxis, with the added buzzzz of pre-hospital emergency care.…
Lemons and Lymes
What went wrong for a child who picked up Lymes’ instead of limes?…
FRCEM Primary Paper 5
FRCEM Primary Examination Single Best Answer…
Tired purple legs
A 7-year-old girl presents with an acute, painful hot knee and a red-purple non-blanching rash.…
EMJ Podcast May 2019
This month we discuss measles and Major incident triage…
November 2018
November 2018…
Acute Sore Throat
Sore throat accounted for 1.9% of all visits to emergency departments in the USA in 2006…
Rashes
Rashes are difficult to diagnose in both children and adults. The key is to be able to identify the important types (anaphylaxis urticaria, meningitis, non-accidental injury), and then manage to learn…