Objective Neonatal sepsis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in preterm infants. Despite its ...

Varicella, known as chickenpox, is caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), with an estimated 84 million cases annually. It primarily affects children, for most of whom it is a self-limiting ...

Importance Vigilant clinical assessment is the key to preventing complications, including death, in infants at risk of neonatal withdrawal syndrome. The eat, sleep and console (ESC) is proposed as an ...

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Following several challenging cases of children and young people (CYP) attending our paediatric emergency department (PED) with police, we set out to better understand these CYP and how we were caring ...

Objective Magnet ingestion in children and young people (CYP) is associated with significant harm. We aimed to describe the incidence, circumstances and outcomes of magnet ingestion in CYP in the ...

Objective To assess the impact of epidemics and pandemics on the utilisation of paediatric emergency care services to provide health policy advice. Setting Systematic review. Design Searches were ...

Objective To investigate a possible association between fever admissions and 4 component Meningococcal B (4CMenB). Design 4CMenB is given at 8 and 16 weeks in the first year of life. Self-controlled ...

Objective Growing evidence suggests that coeliac disease (CeD) is more common in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) but diagnostic confusion remains due to overlapping histological and ...

Objective Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is common in paediatric gastroenterology with intravenous iron increasingly utilised. While adult data are published for ferric derisomaltose (FDI), no ...

Clinicians of all professions who treat children have an interest in the capabilities of their patients. Not least as to whether the child in front of them can make treatment decisions. We seek, ...