Tubulopathies Day 1: Urine Trouble
Ji Soo Kim (@KimneyJ), Wesley Hayes, Detlef Bockenhauer Albert Einstein once said: “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the… Read More »Tubulopathies Day 1: Urine Trouble
General Paediatrics
Pollen Food Allergy Syndrome
Dr Amirah Khair, Dr Suzanne Dowling Ciaran is a 14 year old boy who presents to his GP with a complaint of having an itchy… Read More »Pollen Food Allergy Syndrome
Hartmann’s in Hyperkalaemia: is that o(k)+?
Dr Constantinos Kanaris, PICU and retrieval consultant; @DrKanaris This blog is written with an aim to dispel the myth that 0.9% saline is superior to… Read More »Hartmann’s in Hyperkalaemia: is that o(k)+?
To (anti-) D or not to D
Keir Pickard (Haematology ST4 in the North-East) and Alex Langridge (Haematology ST6 in the North-East), reviewed by Andy Charlton, (Consultant Haematologist) Introduction: red cell antigens… Read More »To (anti-) D or not to D
Pro-Vac Conversations in Vaccine Hesitancy: Part 2
Thanks for returning to the second installment of this story. If you haven’t read Part 1, you can find it here. As mentioned before, the… Read More »Pro-Vac Conversations in Vaccine Hesitancy: Part 2
Pro-Vac Conversations in Vaccine Hesitancy
Aimee Henry, Marty Hanna, Vincent McLarnon, Colm Darby, Rachel Hearst, Shilpa Shah Here’s a story that’s never been told before. Or has it? We’ll let… Read More »Pro-Vac Conversations in Vaccine Hesitancy
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 little formal training in how… Read More »Surviving & Thriving in Outpatient Clinics
Anaphylaxis
Steven Montgomery (Junior Paediatric Clinical Fellow), Katarina Stefkova (Paediatric ST3), Shilpa Shah (Consultant Paediatrician), Craigavon Area Hospital Anaphylaxis is a dreaded presentation to the Emergency… Read More »Anaphylaxis
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 Hospital, Southern Health & Social… Read More »Not So Sweet – investigating hypoglycaemia in a toddler
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 symptom in children, that we… Read More »Chest Pain in children: when to worry and when to refer
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 health of future generations and… Read More »Top Tips – Healthy Living for Preschool Children
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 is the transformed way in… Read More »Top Tips for Running A Telephone-Based Paediatric Outpatient Clinic
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 world COVID-19 updates Open New… Read More »COVID-19: how to interpret what you read
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 the Research Ethics Committee There… Read More »Top Ten Tips for submitting an IRAS form to a Research Ethics Committee
Thinking Like a Parent…
Lizzie Wortley and Stan Rom Most of us have probably been asked by parents whether we have kids ourselves, and had varying responses to… Read More »Thinking Like a Parent…
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 also say that she is… Read More »COVID-19: how to navigate information in a global outbreak
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 Ethics Committees. I did a… Read More »A peek inside the Research Ethics Committee
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 hears demons urging him to… Read More »Acute Psychotic Episode in an Adolescent