This module covers common mental health challenges faced by children and how they often manifest in the Emergency Department ED setting.
This module covers common mental health challenges faced by children and how they often manifest in the Emergency Department ED setting.
This session covers common mental health challenges faced by children and how they often manifest in the Emergency Department ED setting.
It’s Friday evening and you’re at work in the ED (where else would you rather be??). Jack is a 15-year-old boy who has taken an overdose of paracetamol a couple of hours ago. He texted his girlfriend soon after and she called an ambulance.
A 16-year-old is brought in by ambulance to your resuscitation room with a reduced level of consciousness and then starts to see monkeys everywhere. What’s going on?
Communicating with little people?
This blog presents a whistle stop tour of adolescent medicine as it applies to the ED. It discusses some hints and tips on how to improve the ED experience for adolescents whilst also increasing your confidence in supporting the needs of this sometimes tricky age group.
In this blog we will talk about how to overcome barriers, which will help you build trust with and get the information you need from the patient to treat them and keep them safe, with some great insights from young people working with Redthread.
A 45-year-old female attended the ED after taking an intentional antifreeze overdose.
The unspoken disease of inflicted, non-accidental injury in children.
Why is this a hot topic? It is a sign of serious distress. It is common. It is strongly associated with suicide. Suicide is one of commonest causes death in young people. 200% increase in self harm 1985-1995.
If ever you have the opportunity to save a young persons life – it is now.