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 ...

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 ...

Major trauma is the most frequent cause of death in the UK for children aged between 1 and 18 years. It is responsible for 31% of deaths in children aged 1–4 years, increasing to 48% of deaths in ...

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 ...

An estimated 1%–2% of all new presentations to emergency departments in the UK are caused by animal bites.1 It is reported that roughly 50% of people sustain animal bites in their lifetime, with more ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...