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, emergency and acute-care clinicians get a high-value bronchiolitis review. It keeps clinical diagnosis, work of breathing, hydration, feeding, nasal suction and illness trajectory ahead of routine chest radiography, blood tests, blood gases, viral panels, bronchodilators and corticosteroids.
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Acute-care clinicians, paediatric teams and students revising early infant fever get a pathway-based update. It keeps age in days, clinical appearance, urinalysis, inflammatory markers, cerebrospinal fluid decisions, admission planning and culture follow-up tied together for infants aged 8–60 days.
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Well newborn care still needs a structured safety mindset. The teaching covers skin-to-skin transition, feeding, glucose monitoring, sepsis risk assessment, weight loss, newborn examination and discharge counselling, with a reminder that quiet or sleepy babies may need reassessment rather than routine reassurance.
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Young people with medical complexity need transition planning before the final transfer appointment. The teaching is concrete: clarify family roles, consent, equipment, medication refills, adult primary care links and transfer summaries so care is not lost between paediatric and adult systems.
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Hip click, uneven crawling, leg-length concern or breech history need an age-based hip assessment rather than reassurance alone. This is the paediatric and general practice choice for Ortolani, Barlow, abduction, Galeazzi sign, ultrasound, x-ray and Pavlik harness decisions.
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Open this first because persistent neonatal jaundice is time-sensitive and easy to mislabel as breast milk jaundice. At the two-week review, check scleral jaundice and stool colour, then order fractionated bilirubin; direct bilirubin 1 mg/dL or more needs urgent specialist input.
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Paediatric obesity is better judged by BMI trajectory, comorbidity and function than by weight alone. Open it for permission-based growth-chart conversations, when GLP-1 therapy becomes reasonable, and why slower titration matters when nausea or constipation appears.
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Start here if adolescent self-harm or hopelessness appears anywhere in your practice. The episode gives a usable structure for asking directly about non-suicidal self-injury, suicidal thoughts, intent, plan, past behaviour, protective factors, and access to lethal means, then building a realistic safety plan.
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The clue is in the floor rise, the gait and the tone. This episode is the strongest paediatric listen today because it turns Gowers' sign, marked CK, early hand preference and trisomy 21 screening into concrete actions rather than delayed referrals.
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Most paediatric epistaxis stops when families pinch the soft lower nose firmly and long enough. Recurrent reattendance often reflects poor technique, so correct compression first, add oxymetazoline when needed, and escalate or refer early if bleeding persists, packing is required, or obstruction suggests a posterior source or mass.