The Curbsiders Pediatrics is a podcast that focuses on delivering practical, evidence-based education in paediatric medicine. Hosted by expert clinicians, the series covers a wide range of topics including common paediatric conditions, developmental milestones, and acute care scenarios.
Each episode combines clinical insights with up-to-date research, aimed at helping healthcare professionals improve their knowledge and confidence in managing paediatric patients.
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Paediatric heart murmurs require interpretation alongside age, feeding or exertional symptoms, growth, pulses and auscultation findings. Neonatal presentations, exertional syncope and concerning family history warrant particular attention, while normal screening cannot exclude every structural cardiac lesion.
A protruding ear does not always indicate mastoiditis, and mastoid air-cell opacification alone is insufficient. Clinical progression, ear-canal examination and CT evidence of bony destruction or abscess help identify children requiring drainage or more extensive surgery.
Paediatric urinary tract infection assessment depends on collection method, urinary inflammation and culture results. Treatment duration varies with age, fever and clinical risk, while constipation management and careful interpretation of prophylaxis evidence are important in preventing recurrence.
Paediatric foreign bodies demand object-specific decisions: oesophageal button batteries need emergency removal, normal radiographs do not exclude non-radiopaque airway aspiration, and nasal or ear extraction techniques should reflect object shape, visibility and cooperation.
Paediatric deep vein thrombosis management requires attention to venous anatomy, provoking factors, bleeding risk, anticoagulant suitability and treatment duration, alongside correctly timed monitoring, practical formulation choices and counselling about recurrence and post-thrombotic symptoms.
Pertussis, pneumococcal disease and invasive Haemophilus influenzae infection require attention to age, vaccination status, illness stage and infection site, including recognising pertussis without a whoop and using susceptibility results to refine meningitis treatment.
Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome causes delayed gastrointestinal reactions, typically repetitive vomiting one to four hours after a trigger without usual skin or respiratory allergy features, requiring recognition of the feeding pattern, severity-based rehydration and planned trigger avoidance and reintroduction.
A quiet infant, missed word milestones, unclear speech or language regression requires structured assessment of receptive, expressive and social communication. Formal audiology and early referral remain necessary after a normal newborn screen, while vocabulary should be counted across every language.
Stereotyped clusters of brief flexion or extension movements, especially after waking, become more concerning when frequency increases or development plateaus or regresses. Caregiver video, urgent electroencephalography that captures sleep, a developmental and skin examination, and early treatment help shorten the path from recognition to response.
Paediatric, primary-care and gastroenterology clinicians get a structured approach to faltering weight. Weight-for-length or BMI Z scores, feeding history, stooling, development and red flags guide management, with calorie-focused intervention prioritised for well children and targeted investigation or specialist assessment reserved for severe, atypical or poorly responsive presentations.
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