1 Paediatric Palliative Care, Helen & Douglas House Hospices, Oxford, UK 2 Clinical Services, Helen & Douglas House Hospices, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Dr Emily Harrop, Consultant in Paediatric ...

The EATERS mnemonic is a novel method for taking an allergy focused clinical history. It provides a degree of certainty for diagnosing food allergy and can be used in both IgE and non IgE mediated ...

Correspondence to Dr Richard J Drew, Department of Microbiology, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK; richard.drew{at}alderhey.nhs.uk Conjunctivitis is a very common ...

The first of this pair of papers outlined what a clinical decision rule is and how one should be created. This section examines how to use a rule, by checking that it is likely to work (examining how ...

Correspondence to Dr ES Sen, Department of Paediatric Rheumatology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS2 8BJ, UK; ethan.sen{at}doctors.org.uk Group A streptococcus ...

The ward round represents an important opportunity for all aspects of a patient’s care to be reviewed, including medications. Errors with medications have significant patient safety implications in ...

RCPCH/NPPG joint standing committee on medicines, best practice consensus guidelines for medication safe paediatric ward rounds, December 2023 (15 August, 2024) ...

2 Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Correspondence to ...

A low platelet count (thrombocytopenia) is a common finding especially in neonates who are admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. Due to the varied causes that can lead to neonatal ...

Ataxia is a common presentation to an acute paediatric unit and it can often be difficult to determine the cause. It is important to distinguish between serious causes, for example, brain tumours and ...

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Determining severity of illness and undertaking an adequate risk assessment is a fundamental part of acute paediatric practice. This review highlights physiology, communication, heuristics and ...