Sarah Rodrigues, Dayna Rosenthal, Felicity Katz, Urshla Devalia, Mariana Fonseca ...

Historically, vascular rings, formed by a right or double aortic arch, have been diagnosed in childhood following symptoms or signs of tracheo-oesophageal compression. Many of these features might be ...

In 1901, building on the earlier work of Matteuci and Waller, Einthoven created the first string galvanometer and assigned letters to each specific deflection.1 This was the birth of the ECG as we ...

A fit, well, asymptomatic 6-year-old girl was referred to clinic for a murmur. Her ECG is shown in figure 1. Figure 1 Patient’s ECG. ### Rate, rhythm and PR interval The median heart rate for a 6-year ...

One-fifth of children in hospitals are undernourished. Ignorance of undernourishment results in poorer outcomes for those children: longer hospital stays, complications and readmission.1 Nutritional ...

Enterovirus (EV) is the most common cause of aseptic meningitis and has a benign course, unlike EV encephalitis, which can result in long-term neurological sequelae. There are no active treatments or ...

Guidelines are integral to reducing variation in paediatric care by ensuring that children receive the right care, every time. However, for reasons discussed in this paper, clinicians do not always ...

Group A streptococcus (GAS) is the cause of a wide range of acute suppurative and, following a latent period, non-suppurative diseases such as rheumatic fever and poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis.

A low platelet count (thrombocytopenia) is a common finding especially in neonates who are admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. Due to the varied causes that can lead to neonatal ...

In August 2013 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) collaborated with the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to publish a guideline entitled ‘Autism: the management ...

Refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people (CYP) (see box 1 for definitions) often have complex social, physical and mental health needs but are often unable to access National Health ...

Maya Asir, Kirsty Brennan, Jane Heraghty, Alice Hurn, Haran Jogeesvaran, Grace Moriarty, Andrew Nyman, Simona Turcu, Trisha V Vigneswaran ...