Aims: To establish whether the incorrect use of bouncy chairs (BC) and car seats (CS) is a significant cause of injuries in babies. Methods: Prospective study over a 12 month period. All babies under ...

Correspondence to Lien Dossche, Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Gent 9000, Belgium; Lien.dossche{at}ugent.be Objective To ...

Advances in paediatric care mean that more children with complex medical problems (heart disease, neurodevelopmental problems and so on) are surviving their early years. This has important ...

Objective The relationship between low income and adverse perinatal outcomes, such as low birth weight and developmental ...

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Correspondence to Dr Joe Brierley, Paediatric Intensive Care & Bioethics, National Institute for Health Research Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre, London WC1N 3JH, UK; ...

We present the prevalence rates of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) in our tertiary feeding service. ARFID is a relatively recent DSM –V diagnostic category that describes children ...

Background A bronchiolitis integrated care pathway (BICP) achieved an 87% reduction in the use of medications in our regional health service (RHS) during the 2019–2020 season. Aim This study aimed to ...

Recently, two important papers on paediatric trauma were published by investigators from the Paediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN): a validation paper for the prediction rules ...

Objectives To identify clinical characteristics of patients with non-refractory Kawasaki disease (KD), which were defined as those who successfully responded to the standard initial intravenous ...

Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics have become a cornerstone of everyday paediatric emergency medicine (PEM). Near universally available examples include urine dipsticks, pulse oximetry, blood gas ...

Objective To explore the trends and changes in the transport of children to paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) between 2013 and 2022. Design Retrospective analysis of routinely collected data.