US determined best LP position
Here ultrasound was used to ascertain the best position for doing a lumbar puncture in kids, where the interspinous space […]
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Therapeutic hypothermia for newborns
More evidence that cooling the hypoxic neonatal brain improves outcomes…. OBJECTIVE Mild hypothermia after perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) reduces neurologic […]
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2J or 4J/kg in Paediatric Defibrillation?
Image: Defibrillator Monitor by Ernstl, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons Should we shock with 2J/kg or 4J/kg in Paediatric […]
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Out of hospital monitoring in kids
I don’t have full text access to the Journal Pediatrics, so I’m not sure what I make of this small […]
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Estimating child weight in Hong Kong
We know that the ‘APLS formula’ is inaccurate as a tool for estimating weight in Western children, and British and […]
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UK children sedation guideline
Despite the huge number of articles in the literature on paediatric sedation, one still encounters acrimonious debates about the appropriateness […]
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Better outcome with paediatric retrieval teams
Image: NETS Ambulance for Emergency Intensive Care for newborns and children by Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0 au, via Wikimedia Commons […]
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Swimming the Channelopathy
Drowning is one of the leading causes of accidental death in children. Some apparent drownings may be related to sudden […]
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Tracheobronchial Foreign Bodies in Children
Image: Button surgically removed from a child's nose, United Kingdo Wellcome L0058148, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Asphyxiation by […]
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Hypertonic saline in bronchiolitis
Image: Nebulizer (PSF) by Pearson Scott Foresman, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons A Canadian randomised controlled trial compared nebulised 3% […]