Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Priorities: precise assessment of brain injury + associated injury; protection against secondary brain injury; management of ICP
Category Medical Specialty
Paediatric Vital Signs
Very simplified pediatric vital signs table
Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension in the Newborn
Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension in the Newborn
Tetralogy of Fallot
Tetralogy of Fallot: Large VSD; RV outflow tract obstruction; RV hypertrophy; and Overriding aorta
Acute Non-Traumatic Weakness
Acute non-traumatic weakness may occur as a result of a wide variety of underlying etiologies, many of which are life-threatening
Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis is an under-recognised progressive neurological disorder caused by antibodies against NR1-NR2 NMDA receptors; 60% of patients with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis have the presence of a tumour (most commonly teratoma)
Aseptic Meningitis
Aseptic Meningitis = meningeal inflammation with negative bacterial cultures.
Basilar Artery Occlusion
Basilar Artery Occlusion: the clinical effects will be dependent on: adequacy of collaterals, integrity of the Circle of Willis and the onset of the occlusion; occlusion at the bifurcation will involve the posterior cerebral artery +/- the superior cerebellar artery
GBS vs Myasthenia Gravis vs MND
GBS vs Myasthenia Gravis vs MND
Brain Herniation
Brain herniation is the displacement of part of the brain through an opening or across a separating structure into a region that it does not normally occupy.
Bulbar Dysfunction in ICU
Bulbar Dysfunction in ICU
Cerebral oedema
TYPES Cytotoxic edema Vasogenic edema CT FEATURES OF RAISED ICP References and Links