Paediatric Tube Cuff Pressures
A paediatric critical care transport service encountered elevated tracheal tube cuff pressures (>30 cmH20) in 41% of 60 consecutive care […]
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Acute Paediatrics
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Bronchiolitis – not much works
A review article on bronchiolitis reminds us that there is little evidence to support any specific therapies. Bronchodilators, steroids, adrenaline […]
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Taming the Ketamine Tiger
A paper of great interest for those of us who spend a lot of time teaching the use of ketamine […]
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FV cannulation in kids: 60° abduction
An ultrasound study on infants and children under general anaesthesia evaluated the femoral vein with the patients’ legs at 30° […]
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Finding the sick febrile kid
Finding children with serious illness among the multitudes who present with fever is the number one challenge in paediatric emergency […]
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Weight formula for kids
The traditional ‘APLS formula’ for weight estimation in children based on age (wt in kg = [age+4] x 2) is […]
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ETCO2 and ROSC
One for the ‘hardly surprising’ category…. A study of end-tidal CO2 during out-of-hospital adult and child cardiac arrest resuscitation showed […]
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Etomidate in RSI – systematic review
A systematic review of 20 included studies comparing a bolus dose of etomidate for rapid sequence induction with other induction […]
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Brain tumours in kids
When might you suspect a brain tumour in a child who presents with, say, nausea and vomiting, or behavioural disturbance? […]
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Petechial spots usually benign
An Iranian study showed 10% of afebrile well appearing infants had petechiae and they remained well on follow up. This […]