Surviving & Thriving in Outpatient Clinics
Mitch Blair, Lucy Pickard and Kate Dhamarajah Consultants spend many hours seeing children in outpatient clinics. Despite this, there is relatively
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General Paediatrics
Anaphylaxis
Steven Montgomery (Junior Paediatric Clinical Fellow), Katarina Stefkova (Paediatric ST3), Shilpa Shah (Consultant Paediatrician), Craigavon Area Hospital Anaphylaxis is a
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Not So Sweet – investigating hypoglycaemia in a toddler
Danielle Leemon (Paediatric ST7), Pamela Slevin (Paediatric SAS Doctor), Shilpa Shah (Paediatric Consultant). Peer review Dr Sam Thompson (Paediatric Consultant) Craigavon
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Chest Pain in children: when to worry and when to refer
Dr Katy Huxstep, Dr Owen Miller and Dr Sarah Brooke Firstly the good news! Although chest pain is a common
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Top Tips – Healthy Living for Preschool Children
Claire Parris and Shilpa Shah It is no new concept that child health and disease influences lifelong health. To improve the
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Top Tips for Running A Telephone-Based Paediatric Outpatient Clinic
Richard Daniels, ST4, Barnet Hospital Introduction In these turbulent times, there have been a few silver linings. One of which
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COVID-19: how to interpret what you read
Ken Wu Every day during the COVID-19 outbreak, I go through the following scene: Open BBC News, read UK and
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Top Ten Tips for submitting an IRAS form to a Research Ethics Committee
Emily Cadman, Rosie Glazebrook (REC Chair), Christie Ord (REC Approvals Manager) This article follows on from Emily’s previous article on
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Thinking Like a Parent…
Lizzie Wortley and Stan Rom Most of us have probably been asked by parents whether we have kids ourselves,
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COVID-19: how to navigate information in a global outbreak
Ken Wu A 2-year-old girl presents to the paediatric emergency department with a 3-day history of fever and cough. Parents
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A peek inside the Research Ethics Committee
Emily Cadman A few years ago, whilst out of clinical medicine, I applied to join one of the London Research
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Joy in Work
Seb Gray We live in a world and we work in a system where joy has become lost – re-finding
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Acute Psychotic Episode in an Adolescent
Jessica Wong, Matthew Fernando A 14-year-old boy presents with auditory and visual hallucinations to the emergency department. He sees and
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Protecting #1 – Neuroprotective strategies for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Manette Ness-Cochinwala, Buvana Dwarakanathan Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the top causes of morbidity and mortality in paediatrics.
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Looking after ‘looked after’ children and young people: how to do an initial health assessment that counts
Dr Emma Sunderland, Dr Liz Jacks and Dr Hannah Zhu About to start a job in community paediatrics? This article
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Your first paediatrics placement: Top Ten Tips for Medical Students
Ella Hubbard We normally come to paeds after a year or two of clinical medicine, once we have learned the
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Health Promotion: What’s a Paediatrician to Do?
Lizzie Wortley and Max Davie
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Are headaches giving you a headache?
Dr Jonathan Derrick and Dr Amit Bali
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