A 5-year-old presents with refusal to walk after a brief viral illness.
A 5-year-old presents with refusal to walk after a brief viral illness.
This toddler has no medical history of note. He is the 3rd of 4 children under 6 years.
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 thoughts, musings and suggestions.
Investigating a child presenting with a limping gait to your Paediatric Emergency Department.
This month Noel and Stephen discuss diagnostic performance of S100B as a rule-out test for intracranial pathology in head-injured patients presenting to the ED who meet NICE Head Injury Guideline criteria for CT-head scan, and Graham discusses Paediatric acute non traumatic limp.
Elsie is a four year old who has come into the Emergency Department because her parents are concerned that she is not walking. Three days ago she was playing with her aunt and hurt her leg. Since then she has not been weight-bearing and her parents have been carrying her everywhere
Differential diagnosis of knee pain in the limping older child