Paediatrics for Primary Care (and anyone else)

With wheeze in children becoming a major presentation again, it feels like a good time to explore the issue of deciding whether a child has ...

On the run-up to Christmas, this site will be delivering some rather minimalist FOAMed.  Instead of comprehensive explanations, there will b...

 This bronchiolitis season is going to be different.  While SARS-CoV2 virus does not seem to be a significant cause of wheeze in children  (...

We've come a long way in terms of reducing unnecessary tests in paediatrics.  It is within my career that it was standard to obtain a c...

In the previous post, I covered how best to make a diagnosis of lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI).  Anyone who has the pleasure of w...

When a child or young person has one or more wheezy episode, there are various possible causes.  The vast majority of paediatric wheeze is ...

One of the things that a crisis should do is to bring people together.  As the UK's National Health Service experiences a winter that is...

In my formative postgaduate years as a doctor, I was told by more than one mentor that antibiotics were a good treatment for children who we...

Guidelines almost always dedicate themselves to 'what to look out for'- the red fags and risk factors.  Often, we go to a guidel...

Recently I learned a good way to find the answer to a question.  It happened like this- On a walk in Sheffield I saw this strange bird: ...

There was interesting debate this week about using inhalers for bronchiolitis.  The interesting features included how heated it became (ther...