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?
Tag Paediatric Perplexity
Neonatal Diversion
There is something strange about this chest x-ray of a neonate who has just arrived in ICU from the OR. What is the oddity and what are the implications?
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.
Weak and vomiting: an endocrine emergency
A 6 year-old boy presents with 5 days of vomiting. He is drowsy, lethargic and is now too weak to walk. What's going on?
Zany Zipper
A 6-year old boy presents to ED in agony after entrapping his penis in the zipper of his new jeans. Do you have the skills to set him free?
Ds and Vs, and can’t stand up
A 5 year old boy presents vomiting and diarrhoea. He is very weak, to the point where he's been having trouble standing up. hypokalemia
Baby Tim Cries
Baby Tim is 3 months-old and has been crying inconsolably. Can you help her? TIM CRIES infantile colic
Perilous Pinhead Polka-dots
A 3 week-old newborn is brought in to the emergency department by her worried parents. A non-blanching rash has appeared overnight. How are you going to handle this scenario?
Splat! A vomiting infant
An infant is brought in by his concerned parents. Splat! Vomiting is the presenting complaint. Can you work out what's going on and help this sick baby?
Inhalational Emergency
aka Pediatric Perplexity 005 A toddler was brought to the emergency department for increasing respiratory distress over the past few days. He has also had fevers, and was started on antibiotics by his family doctor with no improvement. In the…