Social Paediatrics: Time to Come to the Party
Lizzie Wortley, ST7 paediatrics It can be really easy to get frustrated when working. We know that even when seeing ten wheezers a day, they… Read More »Social Paediatrics: Time to Come to the Party
Lizzie Wortley, ST7 paediatrics It can be really easy to get frustrated when working. We know that even when seeing ten wheezers a day, they… Read More »Social Paediatrics: Time to Come to the Party
Dr Suzanne Dowling Paediatric ST6, RLH General Paediatrics & Allergy Reviewed by Dr A Aston Paediatric Allergy Consultant, RLH and Dr L Noimark Paediatric Allergy… Read More »Acute Angiodema and Urticaria: Part 2
Dr Suzanne Dowling, Dr A Aston, Dr L Noimark What is it?? Acute urticaria is the sudden appearance of wheals (a.k.a “nettle rash” or “hives”) and… Read More »Acute Urticaria and Angioedema: Part 1
Bryony Hopkinshaw, Jonathan Broad, Lisa Murphy, and Sarah Boutros A 28 week gestation child is born premature requiring NICU admission following an unbooked pregnancy. Mum’s… Read More »NHS for All? Part 3 – Maternity/Neonatal Care & Supporting Survivors of Trafficking
Bryony Hopkinshaw, Jonathan Broad, Lisa Murphy, and Sarah Boutros Khalid is a 7-year-old boy who had an episode of severe asthma 6 months ago and… Read More »NHS for All? Part 2 – Access to Primary Care and Harms Due to Charging
Bryony Hopkinshaw, Jonathan Broad, Lisa Murphy, and Sarah Boutros Aisha is a 3-month-old baby who presented three days ago with severe breathing difficulty, and was… Read More »NHS for All? Part 1 – NHS Charging Regulations & Inpatient Care
Elizabeth Jones and Charlotte Clements Lymphadenopathy is pretty common in children and it can be a sign of nothing much (a reaction to a virus… Read More »Lymphadenopathy: A Pain in the Neck or Something More Serious?
Ji Soo Kim (@KimneyJ), Wesley Hayes, Detlef Bockenhauer Back for more? Fantastic. Today we talk all things DCT – distal convoluted tubule. But if you… Read More »Tubulopathies Day 4: Distal Convoluted Tubule
Ji Soo Kim (@KimneyJ), Wesley Hayes, Detlef Bockenhauer Welcome back to part 3 of our tour through tubulopathies. If you missed parts 1 or 2,… Read More »Tubulopathies Day 3: Loop of Henle
Ji Soo Kim (@KimneyJ), Detlef Bockenhauer and Wesley Hayes Welcome back. If you’ve been with us all week, you’ve successfully navigated your way along the… Read More »Tubulopathies Day 5: Collecting Duct
Ji Soo Kim (@KimneyJ), Wesley Hayes, Detlef Bockenhauer Welcome back, I’m glad I didn’t scare you off. Yesterday we discussed how to approach a patient… Read More »Tubulopathies Day 2: Proximal Tubule
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
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
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)+?
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
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
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
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