Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute self-limited febrile multisystem vasculitis of childhood of unknown aetiology in which coronary artery aneurysms (CAA) may develop in 15% – 25% of untreated cases.
Pediatrics
Needing a Diagnostic Kick-start
A 4 year-old boy has been brought to the emergency department by his worried parents. He has had fevers for the past 6 days. Kawasaki disease?
Pediatric CXR Cases 012
May 2020 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Jennifer Potter and Nicholena Richardson
Pediatric CXR Cases 011
April 2020 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Jennifer Potter and Nicholena Richardson
3D printing for Paediatric Anatomical models
3D printing for dummies. A how-to guide for 3D printing in simulation with Dr Jasamine Coles-Black, Vascular Research Fellow at Austin Health
Paediatric analgesia
Great pediatric care requires excellent pain management, and excellent pain management requires the recognition that sucrose is not a pain medication.
Pediatric CXR Cases 009
January 2020 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Jennifer Potter and Nicholena Richardson
West syndrome
West Syndrome (Infantile Spasms) – Triad of infantile spasms, developmental delay and hypsarrhythmia on EEG. First described by William James West on his son in 1841
Otto Ullrich
Otto Ullrich (1894 – 1957) was a German pediatrician.
Eeva Therman
Eeva Therman-Patau (1916 – 2004) was a Finnish-American cytogeneticist.
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