Dr Claire Strauss & Dr Andrea Leigh Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a condition with many life-altering consequences. Your exposure to children with SCD may… Read More »Acute Complications of Sickle Cell Disease – Part 1
Dr Seb Gray, Paediatric Consultant at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust & CYP Asthma Lead for Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon & Wiltshire (BSW) Twitter: @SebJGray,… Read More »Greener asthma treatment – a golden opportunity or a red flag?
Dr Khadijatul Muneer, Dr Mordi Muorah Alfie is a 5 year old boy who was brought in to the ED by his mother who worried… Read More »All Puffed Up – Nephrotic Syndrome
Dr Arameh Aghababaie, Dr Hesham El Sayed Did you think you left strokes safely behind as you entered paediatric training? Unfortunately they don’t only affect… Read More »Perinatal Stroke
Dr Arameh Aghababaie, Dr Hesham El Sayed So, it’s your first day in the neonatal unit, and you keep hearing the term “ROP” being bandied… Read More »Beyond the Lens: Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)
Dr Kiran Raju, Foundation doctor Keen to apply for the Paediatric training pathway? Are you a foundation doctor? Think you want to pursue a career… Read More »Stepping stones towards Paediatric training
Dr Jennifer Curry, Dr Ellen Barnard, Dr Victoria Livingstone; consultant review Dr Shilpa Shah Ben, a 5 year old boy comes to the emergency department… Read More »Macroscopic haematuria: Red, Rose or tea?
Dr Jonathan Ong, Paediatric ST4 (consultant input from Dr Seb Gray) What are e-cigarettes and how do they work? E-cigarettes, or vapes, are battery powered… Read More »Vaping – No smoke without fire
Lizzie Wortley If you haven’t heard of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) you might reasonably think having a few Aces up your sleeve is a good… Read More »Adverse Childhood Experiences
Upama Banerjee The Global Links programme at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) offers many different projects across the world. I was… Read More »RCPCH Global Links – an OOPE in Rwanda
Andrew Chapman, Harsita Patel, Susan Wallace How many virtual conferences had you been to before 2020? For all three of us, and likely for most… Read More »Virtually Unprecedented – Tips on Organising a Virtual Conference
‘Consultant life’ series authors – Seb Gray, Nick Schindler, Rachael Mitchell, Nancy Bostock, Nikhil Ganjoo, Ollie Bevington, James Dearden, Louise Budd, Tom Whitby & David… Read More »Congratulations and welcome to the team! Your first Consultant Job
Dr Catarina Jackson George, a 3-week-old boy, is referred to the paediatric assessment unit for prolonged jaundice. He was born at term via normal vaginal… Read More »Biliary atresia
Seb Gray, Nick Schindler, Rachael Mitchell, Nancy Bostock, Nikhil Ganjoo, Ollie Bevington, James Dearden, Louise Budd, Tom Whitby & David James (co-authors of our Consultant… Read More »Preparing for your first Consultant job interview
Dr Ahmed Sherif, Royal Cornwall Hospital Why should a paediatrician learn cranial ultrasound? We can always ask a radiographer or a radiologist to do it,… Read More »Cranial Ultrasound
Seb Gray, Nick Schindler, Rachael Mitchell, Nancy Bostock, Nikhil Ganjoo, Ollie Bevington, James Dearden, Louise Budd, Tom Whitby & David James This post is part… Read More »Almost there..! Preparing for the end of training
Dr Adam Truelove; Dr Jenny Pallawela Emma is a paediatric trainee seeing patients in a busy paediatric rheumatology clinic. Her next patient is Amna, an… Read More »Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Dr Niha Peshimam, Dr David Cox; Illustrations Dr Simone Paulson You are called to see an hour-old old term baby in the delivery suite with… Read More »Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension (PPHN)