Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Acute asthma attacks are a frequent reason for emergency presentation in children and young people (CYP), and fatal asthma attacks can occur ...

Rates of syphilis, including congenital syphilis, have been rising worldwide. Syphilis is particularly difficult to diagnose given its non-specific symptoms and the inability to culture Treponema ...

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Department of Paediatric Neurosciences, Evelina Children's Hospital, Guy's and Saint Thomas' Foundation trust, Kings Health Partners, London SE1 9RT Correspondence to Dr Charlie Fairhurst, Department ...

Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is well established in adult emergency medicine and critical care. It is used for immediate diagnosis and evaluation of the impact of bedside interventions in the ...

Infection Sepsis creates an increased metabolic demand. The infant may be unable to meet the increased oxygen requirements of the tissues leading to peripheral vasoconstriction and cyanosis. In ...

Correspondence to Dr S Maguire, Department of Child Health, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff CF 14 4XN, UK; sabinemaguire{at}yahoo.co.uk ...

Elias Vouzounis, Anna Hutchins, Ashan Kandiah, Sarah Darnell, Isabel Johnson, Louise Humphreys, Stefania Nodari, Rebecca Bethany Mitting ...

Correspondence to Dr Ronny Cheung, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Westminster Bridge Rd, London, SE1 7EH, UK; ronny.cheung{at}gstt.nhs.uk Public health has been defined as “the science and art of ...

Correspondence to Dr David King, Academic Unit of Child Health, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK; d.a.king{at}sheffield.ac.uk One of the most exciting applications of ...

Correspondence to Dr Jon Dorling, Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, E floor East Block, Queens Medical Centre, Derby Road, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK; jon.dorling{at}nottingham.ac.uk ...

A 3-month-old baby is brought to the paediatric emergency department by their parents because of a fever. You decide to check their inflammatory markers. Their C-reactive protein (CRP) level comes ...