Asthma is the most common chronic disease of children worldwide.1 The most recent National Institute for Health and Care Excellence asthma guidelines explicitly state that asthma should not be ...

Objectives To present a structured approach to the management of a child with a mediastinal mass presenting to the emergency department. To raise awareness of presenting features of less-obvious ...

A staff-led, multidisciplinary quality improvement project addressing workplace well-being in a large inner-city children’s hospital. Many health workers report low workplace well-being, which ...

You have a question, or want to find out current perceptions about a subject, and a comprehensive literature search does not give the answer. A questionnaire or survey, if appropriately designed and ...

Children and young people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) often require support when faced with the common illnesses and infections of childhood. Illnesses particularly associated with fever can cause ...

Varicella zoster virus primarily causes chickenpox, usually a mild self-limiting illness of childhood. However, complications occur in 1% with 4200 annual deaths. Since the first vaccination was ...

Having some understanding of pharmacokinetics is important for all clinicians when prescribing medications. Key elements to effective and safe prescribing include making sure that we don't underdose a ...

The limping child is a common presentation to paediatric services. In most instances the cause is benign with few, if any, investigations required. There is, however, always that concern that the ...

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) published a best practice guideline in 2021 for the management of children presenting with suspected ingestion of super-strong rare earth magnets ...

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

The descriptive term of cerebral palsy encompasses the largest group of childhood movement disorders. Severity and pattern of clinical involvement varies widely dependent on the area of the central ...