6 天之前 · Archives of Disease in Childhood is led by Dr Nick Brown, clinician, epidemiologist and international child health expert. His vision is to enhance child health through training, advocacy, and publishing high quality research that will influence policy, and …

The journal is entering into another exciting year with amazing breadth and quality of papers. This month’s issue is strong on complex health conditions. All the articles are practical and reward reading. Dystonia is a common disorder of movement and tone. Children and young people (CYP) can experience acute worsening of dystonia. The Fifteen minute consultation article by …

Updated national guidance1 was issued in October 2023 based on the lessons learnt during COVID-19 in 2020 for the management of children in hospital with viral respiratory tract infections. This includes the application of isolation, segregation, mask wearing and testing for respiratory viruses in the emergency acute unscheduled care pathway. This …

Contents Volume 110 Issue 1 | EAP February 2025 ISSN: 1743-0585 (print) ISSN: 1743-0593 (online) Sustainably-sourced paper: Every print issue published by BMJ uses paper that can be traced back through every

Drug dosing and exposure throughout childhood are constantly affected by maturational changes like weight, age or body surface area. In neonatal and paediatric intensive care units (NICU and PICU, respectively), drug dosing and exposure are further impacted by non-maturational changes. These changes are related to factors such as sepsis, cardiac failure, acute kidney injury, extracorporeal ...

2025年1月8日 · Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) presents as reduced consciousness, often with seizures, abnormal tone, feeding and respiratory difficulties. The most common cause is secondary to a hypoxic-ischaemic event. However, there are many important diagnoses that can also present as NE, so-called ‘hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) mimics’. This paper, aimed at paediatric trainees, aims to ...

2025年1月8日 · The scale of the problem. In 2022, a national oral health survey found that 23.7% of 5-year-old children in England had visible tooth decay. 1 How many other health problems can you think of that affect one quarter of the population you care for? In 2021–2022, there were 16 959 hospital admissions in England with a primary diagnosis of dental caries in children aged 5–9 years, compared ...

2024年9月16日 · A version of Good Medical Practice was first published in 1995, with updates every 3–10 years thereafter. 2 The last major update was in 2013. The 2024 guidance was developed using (1) evidence from public inquiries, published reports and commissioned research, (2) advice from an external forum of 11 medical and non-medical experts, and (3) consultation with medical professionals, patients ...

Epilepsy is the most common significant long-term neurological condition of childhood. The prevalence in children in the UK is approximately 4 per 1000 children. It affects 1 in 220 children and young people in the UK with on average two children with epilepsy in every primary school and nine in every secondary school.1 The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) defines ...

Convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) (box 1) is the most common childhood medical neurological emergency, with an incidence of approximately 20 per 100 000 per year in the developed world.1 2 Box 1 ### Definition of status epilepticus Status epilepticus is a condition resulting either from failure of the mechanism responsible for seizure termination or from the …