Clinical Case 19: If it barks like a seal, is it a seal?
Winter in any paediatric ED means – flu season, bronchs, croups, URTI etc etc. It can be tough to pick the true sick kid out...
Clinical Case 018: Life and limb (not life OR limb)
Had a tough case this week – 30 odd yo. man came off his motorcycle and suffered a random puncture to the upper thigh, just...
Kid’s coconuts and CTs
Blunt head injury in kids is one of the commonest presentations that we see in ED. In my experience, the rate of serious brain injury...
Sepsis I: why lactate is like a Pap smear.
This is the start of a series of posts on sepsis, I hope to cover the following topics in the coming weeks: I : Sepsis:...
Excited delirium – a new syndrome?
With all the recent posts about sedation in Psych and agitation I thought I might take a moment to draw your attention to the recent...