FEAST and Paediatric Fluid Resuscitation
FEAST = Fluid Expansion As Supportive Therapy. Trial was a landmark study investigating the effects of fluid boluses in the resuscitation of febrile children with evidence of poor perfusion
Category Pediatrics
Bronchiolitis
Goals: resuscitation severity and stability of disease assessment of possible differentials including cardiac disease, influenzae, pertussis stabilisation and possible transfer to neonatal/SCBU if required
Paediatric Airway
The paediatric airway differs from that of adults in terms of anatomy, and there are important management implications
Upper Airway Obstruction in a Child
This is an airway emergency with upper airway obstruction in a paediatric patient.
Johann Friedrich Meckel The Younger
Johann Friedrich Meckel (the younger) (1781 – 1833) was a German anatomist. He described the Meckel diverticulum he found during a postmortem examination
Max Wilms
Karl Maximilian Wilhelm Wilms (1867 – 1918) was a German surgeon and pathologist. Eponymously affiliated with Wilms Tumour (nephroblastoma)
Ramstedt Operation
The history of pyloric stenosis and the Ramstedt Operation (1912) for pyloromyotomy - surgical correction of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, involving longitudinal splitting of the hypertrophic pylorus and leaving the defect open.
Harald Hirschsprung
Harald Hirschsprung (1830 – 1916) was a Danish pediatrician. Eponym - Hirschsprung disease, congenital idiopathic aganglionosis with colonic dilatation
Eduard Heinrich Henoch
Eduard Heinrich Henoch (1820 – 1910) was a German Paediatrician. Student of Johann Lukas Schönlein, he extended the clinical features of childhood purpura and is eponymously affiliated with Henoch-Schönlein Purpura
Pediatric Procedural Sedation with Ketamine
A Question and Answer review of Paediatric Sedation In The Emergency Department. Ketamine and ketamine sedation
Nasal foreign body
A case-based Q-and-A on procedural sedation using ketamine to remove a button battery from a child's nose. What if laryngospasm occurs?
Horrible Spots and Pain
A 4 year-old boy is brought to the emergency department by his parents with a history of increasing numbers of red spots on his legs over the past 6 days.