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Team DFTB. The paediatric prehospital primer, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2020. Available at: https://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.28860
Here at Don’t Forget The Bubbles, we’re delighted to be collaborating with some incredible prehospital clinicians to bring you posts about providing excellent care to children before they get to hospital. While we work away behind the scenes to curate these posts, we wanted to bring some of our published archive together in our very first prehospital paediatric primer.
First, here are some general prehospital posts to get you started.
We hope you enjoy these posts. Keep an eye out for more of our prehospital posts and if you’d like to contribute to our growing prehospital library, please get in touch!
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The paediatric prehospital primer
Team DFTB. The paediatric prehospital primer, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2020. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.28860
Here at Don’t Forget The Bubbles, we’re delighted to be collaborating with some incredible prehospital clinicians to bring you posts about providing excellent care to children before they get to hospital. While we work away behind the scenes to curate these posts, we wanted to bring some of our published archive together in our very first prehospital paediatric primer.
First, here are some general prehospital posts to get you started.
The paediatric assessment triangle
Safer care, out there
Pre-hospital PEM pearls
12 tips to placing a well-secured peripheral IV
Quoting a wise PEM colleague, sometimes pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. Here are some posts to guide you in managing pain in children.
Pre-hospital analgesia Part 1: Fentanyl
Pre-hospital analgesia Part 2: Methoxyflurane
Paediatric analgesia and pain assessment
Paediatric pain scales
We all know that neonates can sometimes feel like an entirely different species of human being. Here are some of our top neonatal posts.
The transition from fetal physiology
Neonatal hypoglycaemia – the HYPOEXIT trial
Neonatal hypoglycaemia – the Sugarbabies trial
Neonatal respiratory distress
Neonatal retrieval with Trish Woods
The neonatal examination
We have some top tips on resuscitating a very sick child…
Towards a calmer resuscitation with Tim Horeczko
The ideal paediatric resuscitation
… or a severely injured child.
Trauma education at RCH
The burden of trauma
Maturing your approach to trauma with Annie Weaver
A bit on head injuries…
Traumatic head injury
Delayed presentation head injuries
…stabbings…
Stabbings in adolescents
Stabbings in adolescents – the where and how
…burns…
Minor burns
Cool running water for burns
Cutting edge burns management with Fiona Wood
…drowning…
Drowning
…and chemical attacks.
Chemical attacks on children
Here are two of our favourite posts on assessing children for sepsis.
The high yield exam in sepsis with Alan Grayson
Fluid assessment in sepsis with Elliot Long
We have a whole section on breathing difficulties.
The high yield respiratory exam with David Krieser
Wheezing in kids
Bronchiolitis
Asthma for ambos
Croup
Inhaled foreign bodies
And if paediatric cardiology blows your mind, have a peek at these posts.
An approach to the paediatric ECG
Syncope in children
SVT in infants
The collapsed cardiac child with Kath Browning Carmo
We have some tips on managing seizures…
Status epilepticus
Febrile convulsions
..how to assess dehydration…
Assessing dehydration
The high yield dehydration assessment with Nikki Abela
Capillary refill time
…and finally, a one stop shop in paediatric toxicology.
Paediatric toxicology
Toxicological risk assessment
Non-toxic exposures
We hope you enjoy these posts. Keep an eye out for more of our prehospital posts and if you’d like to contribute to our growing prehospital library, please get in touch!
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