Category: General paediatrics

Another way to make sticking children with sharp needles less painful for everyone.

Terminology is important, not only for making sure we understand a child's diagnosis properly, but also for providing the best possible care. Getting it right can also help gain the trust of parents and carers who will often know far more about appropriate language use than we clinicians.

Have you been keeping up with the literature? The Bubble Wrap team have.

.@riddick_87 takes us through one of our most common conditions - croup

Not just for DIVAs but for every patient?

Communication is vital to all that we do as clinicians – from the first contact with a patient, through history taking and examination, to initiating treatment and explaining procedures, so we have to do our very best at getting it right. This is perhaps even more important, and more difficult, in the pre-hospital field, where stress levels are high, environments can be unpredictable and time is short.

A look at paediatric cannulation. The good, the bad and the seemingly impossible from @DrVickiCurrie1

Don't be a dipstick drip...

Refractory status epilepticus? Think of FIRES...

Time for an update