In 2018, Her Majesty's Government published statutory and operational guidance setting out how children’s deaths are reviewed in England, aiming to ensure practice is standardised and review of each ...

Objective To determine whether any children in the UK had variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Design This active prospective epidemiological study used the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit, ...

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Introduction Trauma is the leading cause of death in children over 1 year of age in the UK. However, individual prehospital clinicians only encounter paediatric trauma patients rarely. This study ...

Background and Objectives Prolonged neonatal jaundice is defined as jaundice persisting in a term neonate at 14 days and a preterm neonate at 21 days of age. Prolonged neonatal jaundice is most ...

Correspondence to Dr Vianney Gilard, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, APHP, Paris 5 University, Paris 75015, France; vianneygilard{at}hotmail.fr Objective The aim ...

1 Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK 2 Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, ...

1 Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Working Group on Recognising Acute Illness in Children, London, UK 2 Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, UK 3 Department ...

Base deficit is a parameter often used to guide further treatment in acidotic children and is taken as a measure of how “sick” they are. Five children with septic shock are presented who had ...

1 Department of Paediatric Neurology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Department of Radiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Institute of Child ...

Background: Current best practice for treating acute severe pain in children is to administer intravenous or intranasal opioid. Intranasal diamorphine offers less traumatic analgesia than the ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate physical activity energy expenditure (AEE) in groups of free living infants in the first year of life. DESIGN Mixed longitudinal study of 124 healthy infants, using 232 ...