Cite this article as: Tan, L. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2016. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.2754 A 5 month old infant is brought into the Emergency Department by her parents because they feel she has been persistently irritable and back arching after feeds for the last month. They have looked up ‘infant reflux’ on…
Dr Li-Zsa Tan iss an advanced trainee in paediatric gastroenterology and general paediatrics. Based in Sydney as a Fellow in Gastroenterology, she thinks Jean-Luc Picard is the best Star Trek captain EVER and wonders if someone would like to do a coffee run now, please.
Cite this article as: Tan, L. Upper GI Bleed, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2016. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.3205A 7 year old boy is referred from a peripheral hospital for a 2 day history of passing black tarry stool. On the 3rd day he passes loose stools mixed with dark maroon blood clots. For the last week…
Cite this article as: Tan, L. Biliary atresia, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2016. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.3555 A 5 week old infant is seen for the first time at the paediatrics outpatient’s clinic with jaundice.
Cite this article as: Tan, L. Parenteral Nutrition, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2014. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.3203You are working in the NICU as a registrar and have just admitted a 28 week premature baby weighing 1kg. The consultant would like to start parenteral nutrition as well as small volume trophic feeds of expressed breast milk.
Cite this article as: Tan, L. Short bowel syndrome, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2013. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.3537 You are the gastroenterology registrar and have been referred a neonate from the NICU. He was born at 30 weeks gestation but unfortunately developed fulminant sepsis secondary to necrotising enterocolitis. He underwent a laparotomy and had 15 cm…