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Family integrated care (FICare) is an advanced model of neonatal healthcare practice, seeking to recognise and promote parents as both primary caregivers and partners within the healthcare team.1 ...
Sarah Rodrigues, Dayna Rosenthal, Felicity Katz, Urshla Devalia, Mariana Fonseca ...
Historically, vascular rings, formed by a right or double aortic arch, have been diagnosed in childhood following symptoms or signs of tracheo-oesophageal compression. Many of these features might be ...
Guidelines are integral to reducing variation in paediatric care by ensuring that children receive the right care, every time. However, for reasons discussed in this paper, clinicians do not always ...
Major trauma is the most frequent cause of death in the UK for children aged between 1 and 18 years. It is responsible for 31% of deaths in children aged 1–4 years, increasing to 48% of deaths in ...
### Key Points A parent attends your clinic reporting that their child typically takes 3–4 hours to fall asleep, wakes after around 3 hours and takes a further hour to resettle and then is difficult ...
A low platelet count (thrombocytopenia) is a common finding especially in neonates who are admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. Due to the varied causes that can lead to neonatal ...
Refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people (CYP) (see box 1 for definitions) often have complex social, physical and mental health needs but are often unable to access National Health ...
The use of data to challenge and improve healthcare has a long and distinguished history but has often failed to bring about expected improvements. It has never become fully embedded in clinical ...
Group A streptococcus (GAS) is the cause of a wide range of acute suppurative and, following a latent period, non-suppurative diseases such as rheumatic fever and poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis.
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 ...
A 3-year-old female was admitted for 2 days of fever and coryzal symptoms. She had three previous episodes of upper respiratory tract infection but no known immunodeficiency or history of aspiration.