In this week’s COVID catch up – why we can’t take the medical knowledge we’ve got as doctors for granted in the debate about schools opening and the winter waiting room challenge. 

Anne Weaver is a consultant in Emergency Medicine & Prehospital Care at The Royal London Hospital and Lead Clinician for London’s Air Ambulance. In this talk she shares her experience of caring for the ever-increasing number of stabbing victims in the United Kingdom. There is a disconnect between what adult trauma surgeons and paediatric trauma...

In this week’s COVID Catch up an acknowledgement that some of the communication challenges that COVID has created aren’t new, some early information on the emerging inflammatory condition and a heads up to the RECOVERY trial.

Helen Bevan is the Director of Service Transformation for the National Health Service Institute for Innovation and Improvement. The NHS is one of the biggest employers in the world. When it was established in 1948 the average life expectancy for men was 66 and 71 for women. As science has advanced and the population becomes...

In this week’s COVID Catch, up a spotlight on the communication challenges that are emerging during COVID and some further detail on a new potential emergency inflammatory condition. Also a heads up to a handy “team timeout’ tool for use at handover.

Taj Hassan is the immediate past president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. With consultant posts unfilled and more and more patients presenting to the emergency department what does the future look like for the specialty? Can we avoid the vision of smoking spires and desolate wastes?

In this weeks COVID Catch up the challenge of “unrequited stress’ is discussed. We’ve moved from a phase of decision drowsiness (fatigue from the unrelating demands of busy clinical shifts) into one of engagement exhaustion. Constant (often virtual) meetings with no obvious end in sight until the pandemic abates.

Erica Donovan rounded out our session on paediatric oncology with this talk about the late effects of paediatric cancers. When we think of cancer we think about making the diagnosis, the chemotherapy, the radiotherapy, the operations. Very rarely do we think of the impact of an essentially chronic disease that has taken a chunk of...

In this week’s COVID Catch two great blogs are highlighted; one from Critical Care Consultant Laura Rock on not answering “Feelings with Facts” and why this is relevant during the pandemic and one from PICU Consultant Miriam Fine-Goulden exploring how its important to hold onto the positives of COVID as well as the negatives.

In this week’s COVID Catch up the issue of communication in resuscitation situations when all team members are in full PPE is explored, and carrying on the PPE theme, the importance of not mixing messages is highlighted. If the wrong advice is given staff members may start using up the very PPE you are running short of. Concern is increasing about collateral damage from late presentations as a result of parent anxiety about coming to hospital and a recent paper reviews the health economics...

COVID has brought with it a reduced flow in paediatrics for now. And many paediatricians are feeling guilt or worry about not being able to contribute in the way our Adult colleagues are currently. Damian explores this, and also how we deal with those who do present to ED during the pandemic.

Justin Hensley – the man with one of the best-kept beards in medicine – was exceedingly kind and filled in at the eleventh hour when one of the speakers had to pull out. Accompanied on stage by the youngest PICU fellow at the conference – his son, Jack – he busted some wilderness myths for the adventurous in the audience.

Damian brings back WILTW, this time as a podcast. Hear his first thoughts on Covid…

Costas Kanaris is a paediatric intensivist working in Manchester. He is also internet-famous for his challenging #fridayquiz in which he presents a case, drip-feeding information, as the Twitter audience figure out the diagnosis and the best way to treat the patient in front of them.

To mark the 21st of March as World Down Syndrome Day we spoke to Dr Elizabeth Herrieven, an EM/PEM Consultant based in Hull about her top tips for triaging and treating children with Down syndrome through her experiences both as a professional and as a parent.

Communication is vitally important in so much we do as clinicians.  Without good communication we can’t hope to get a decent history, properly examine our patient, explain what we think is going on or ensure appropriate management. People with learning disabilities, autism and other additional needs often have difficulties with communication.  Adults and children (from 4 years old) with learning disabilities are three times more likely to die from something which should be amenable to...

In this special podcast edition we talk to Paediatric Infectious Diseases clinical research fellow Dr Alasdair Munro about what we know so far about COVID-19 and children. This podcast is correct at time of recording and focuses on experiences so far in the UK and what we know globally. This talk is based on the blog Alasdair wrote along with Dr Alison Boast for ‘Don’t Forget The Bubbles’ which can be found here: https://bit.ly/2vibXee

Adam is a respiratory physician at Sydney Children’s Hospital. He spoke about all things wheezy in Melbourne for DFTB18.  In this talk from our London conference, he deals with that bane of parents’ lives – the coughing child.

Antibiotics. I’m sure we’ve all been guilty of giving a child in our department a course of antibiotics “just in case”. After all, what harm can it do? In this week’s podcast we talk to Dr Alasdair Munro, a Clinical Research Fellow in Paediatric Infectious Diseases about this and much more as we go antibiotic myth busting!!

Paul Reavley works as a consultant at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.  In this talk he uses his experience in the armed forces to talk about blast injuries. According to Save the Children, one in five children worldwide is living in a conflict zone.

Anna Dobbie works in HEMS, PEM, and Adult ED and is a badass at all of them. She is the person you’d want leading your trauma team. Want to be just a little more like Anna? Then listen to her talk and find out how to step up.

We are delighted to bring our latest guest podcast from the team at ‘The Paediatric Commuter’ podcast. Host Dr Alexandra Pelican talks to Dr Helen Goodyear about eczema and atopic dermatitis in the paediatric population. What is it, how do we diagnose it and, most importantly, how do we manage this common childhood presentation?

In the three years since we launched the Bubble Wrap segment, we have been able to highlight a number of key articles in paediatric research.  In this talk from the popular Bubble Wrap Live! sessions, Edward Snelson brought us his top five favourite articles from the world of paediatric emergency medicine.

In the three years since we launched the Bubble Wrap segment, we have been able to highlight a number of key articles in paediatric research.  In this talk from the popular Bubble Wrap Live! sessions, Craig McBride brought us his top five favourite articles from the land of scalpels and sutures.