Cite this article as: Davis, T. Stabbings in adolescents, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.17337It’s a regular day in your Paeds ED. You’ve just pulled a piece of lego out of a child left nostril; there are two wheezy kids waiting for review to see if they can stretch to two hours; and…
Cite this article as: Kanagaratnam, S. Neonatal jaundice – the basics, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.17047Most newborns are jaundiced. Indeed, 60% of term infants, 80% of premies and 33% of breastfed babies are jaundiced in early life. Fortunately, the majority of these self-resolve and have no sinister underlying cause. But how do…
Cite this article as: Bakhsh, D. How to draw a Genogram, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.17132As a Student Doctor at the University of Queensland, I was offered the opportunity to shadow the Adolescent Team at The Child and Youth Mental Health Service (or CYMHS) at the Queensland Children’s Hospital. This was an amazing…
Cite this article as: Davis, T. Stabbings in kids – when and where?, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.17240You cannot have missed the UK media stories about the increase in stabbings in young people; and the data from hospitals in London supports this. This week saw the publication of an article in BMJ…
Cite this article as: Craig S, and Roland D. Hot and shaking truths…, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.17149It’s always nice to come across a paper that makes you pause. A paper that challenges, until you read it, what you know to be “true”.
Cite this article as: Tagg, A. A short story about death…, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.16636This is the first of a two part post based on my talk for FIX18 entitled A short story about death and life… We’ll publish the second part tomorrow.
Cite this article as: Tagg, A. DFTB go to the Harbour, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.16727This week the DFTB team have been invited to run a conference within a conference in Sydney. Resus @ the Harbour is a multidisciplinary resuscitation conference combining powerful patient stories with cutting edge care – just the…
Cite this article as: Lawton, B. Finding the needle – without using one, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.16714This week the DFTB team have been invited to run a conference within a conference in Sydney. Resus @ the Harbour is a multidisciplinary resuscitation conference combining powerful patient stories with cutting edge care –…
Cite this article as: Appleton, R. EcLiPSE, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.16679Paediatrics has been blessed with not one, but two, really important randomised controlled trials on status epilepticus coming to fruition in the last months. PREDICT’s ConSEPT study was reported at #DFTB18 and now the EcLiPSE study, supported by PERUKI, has just…
Cite this article as: Lawton, B. Seize the data, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.16542The theme of the DFTB18 conference is “Science and Story” and Stuart Dalziel brought an explosion of science to the Melbourne stage today by describing, for the first time in an open forum, the results of one of the…
Cite this article as: Rotella, J. Non-Toxic Exposures, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.16453Mary had a little taste… Common non-toxic exposures (and what to expect) As clinicians, we will occasionally come across someone with a case of Toxicophobia – the fear of being poisoned. In paediatrics, this usually presents in the parents of…
Thinking FAST, and slow
Cite this article as: Tagg, A. Thinking FAST, and slow, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2018. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.1732410 year old Elliott is brought into you emergency department after falling off his bike. Whilst trying to escape from a gang of bullies he went off-road, left the ground and landed awkwardly. The front wheel twisted and…