A 5-year-old boy presents with a central boggy swelling to his forehead without history of trauma, what’s the differential?
A 5-year-old boy presents with a central boggy swelling to his forehead without history of trauma, what’s the differential?
This is the second blog in our public health series. Keep your eyes peeled for more public health goodness to follow in future blogs.
This module explores the presentations of children to the ED by concerned parents after a potential ingestion of a substance is common.
This module explores the presentations of children to the ED by concerned parents after a potential ingestion of a substance is common.
This month we discuss:
Using lactate to diagnose seizures, Non-fatal strangulation, Impact of familiarity on performance and New Online.
A 45-year-old female attended the ED after taking an intentional antifreeze overdose.
The unspoken disease of inflicted, non-accidental injury in children.
A previously fit and well, fully immunised 10-month-old is brought into your ED with a 3 hour history of drowsiness.
The dark side of PEM, and what should also be on your differential diagnosis for any patient you are seeing is: “was this inflicted” and “is there something more?”
It’s safe to say you will likely see a few of these, as minor injuries are a very common occurrence in childhood with around 20-30% of all paediatric attendances to the Emergency Department involving minor injuries or trauma
The neonatal period (<28 days of age) and young infancy (< 3months ) is the most common time for presentation of congenital conditions and the highest susceptibility for infection.
How will you manage the absconding patient?
Paediatric injuries can be very different from those sustained in adults in many respects. This session discusses why this is the case and outlines the general principles of treating paediatric injuries.
Paediatric injuries can be very different from those sustained in adults in many respects. This session discusses why this is the case and outlines the general principles of treating paediatric injuries.
Buckle / Torus fractures in children
The dark side of PEM, and what should also be on your differential diagnosis for any patient you are seeing is: “was this inflicted” and “is there something more?”.
It’s safe to say you will likely see a few of these, as minor injuries are a very common occurrence in childhood with around 20-30% of all paediatric attendances to the Emergency Department involving minor injuries or trauma.
This blog is an overview of how to approach an unwell infant. It covers diagnoses not to be missed, how to spot them and a few tips about management.
With the advent of urgent care centres, your exposure to orthopaedics won’t be what it used to be. However, if you follow some of the basic tips here, your orthopaedic surgeons and patients will be happy!
This podcast covers the Best Practice Guideline on Information Sharing to Prevent Community Violence, which can be found along with all the other guidelines on the main RCEM site.