Archives of Disease in Childhood6d
Safe havens in health: standards of care for children and young people seeking asylum and refugees
This review outlines current literature regarding access to and quality of healthcare for children and young people seeking asylum and refugees in the UK. The multiple factors influencing their ...
Archives of Disease in Childhood7d
Paediatric trauma and hypocalcaemia: a systematic review
Background Trauma is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in children worldwide. While adult studies have demonstrated hypocalcaemia’s association with adverse outcomes, its impact on paediatric ...
BMJ12d
The sick child in art
There are at least 12 paintings from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries titled, ‘The Sick Child’. They were painted by well-known and obscure artists from Holland, Norway, France, England, ...
BMJ13d
Toilet training achievements in children born with posterior urethral valves
Objective Boys born with posterior urethral valves (PUV) often experience bladder development issues due to urethral obstruction during gestation. Despite early surgical intervention, bladder ...
BMJ14d
Gender-affirming hormone treatment for young people with gender dysphoria: where do we go from here?
Child and adolescent gender medicine is currently one of the most heatedly debated fields in medicine. The recent Cass Review,1 underpinned by a comprehensive research programme from the University of ...
BMJ11d
Parents’ ability to provide consent: the zone of parental responsibility
Can the principles underlying the ‘zone’ (or ‘scope’) of parental responsibility promote parents’ participation in providing consent for their children? In a judgement relating to parental consent for ...
BMJ13d
‘Reasonable punishment’ of children defence in England should be consigned to history
In January 1860, a Court heard ‘complaints of chastisement’ inflicted on a child with significant injuries.1 The physical punishment the child had been subjected to was reportedly designed to ‘subdue ...
BMJ1d
Single blood pressure chart for children up to 13 years to improve the recognition of hypertension based on existing normative data
Correspondence to Dr Macolm G Coulthard, Paediatric Nephrology, Great North Children's Hospital, Newcastle NE461BS, UK; jeanandmalc{at}gmail.com Objective To produce a single ‘growth-chart-style’ ...
BMJ2d
Diagnosis, classification, and management of erythema multiforme and Stevens–Johnson syndrome
BACKGROUND In adults, erythema multiforme (EM) is thought to be mainly related to herpes infection and Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS) to drug reactions. AIMS To investigate this hypothesis in children ...
BMJ4d
Ludwigs Angina: lessons learned
1 Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Royal Hospital of Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK 2 Department of ENT, Royal Hospital of Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK 3 Department of Microbiology, Royal Infirmary of ...
BMJ4d
Achondroplasia Foramen Magnum Score: screening infants for stenosis
Correspondence to Dr Moira S Cheung, Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, Evelina London Children's Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK; Moira.Cheung{at}gstt.nhs.uk Background Achondroplasia is associated ...
BMJ1d
777 Parental concern within PEWS: auditing and exploring current practice
Background In 2005 21.5% of NHS hospitals caring for children used Paediatric Early Warning Systems (PEWS) rising to 85% in 2013 and 100% in 2018. However, there is great variation with 47 different ...