paediatric – Page 2

Identifying the febrile kid who's too tachypnoeic

Cliff / April 6, 2013

Body temperature raises heart rate and respiratory rate in kids, potentially affecting our interpretation of these clinical signs. Dutch investigators […]

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Lifting the Fogg on ED Intubaton

Cliff / January 1, 2013

Fellow retrieval specialist and Royal North Shore Hospital emergency physician Dr Toby Fogg and coauthors have published their audit of […]

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Reassurance: difficult laryngoscopy in children remains rare

Cliff / December 2, 2012

I was taught a useful principle by a paediatric anaesthetist 10 years ago which has proven true in my experience […]

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Transtracheal airways in kids. Well, pigs' kids anyway

Cliff / December 1, 2012

Ever had to do a surgical airway in a child? Thought not. They’re pretty rare. Bill Heegaard MD from Henepin […]

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Don't bronchodilators work in infants?

Cliff / October 24, 2012

Inpatient paediatric teams can be scornful when bronchodilators are given by ED staff to wheezing infants, correctly referring to the […]

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ECMO for paediatric cardiac arrest

Cliff / October 8, 2012

The Taiwanese are at it again with their extracorporeal life support. This time, they report their outcomes in children who […]

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Hypotonic Versus Isotonic Fluids After Surgery for Children

Cliff / June 15, 2012

Kids in hospital with injury, infection or other illness, and those undergoing the physiological stress of surgery, produce (appropriately) elevated […]

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