Created by Sarah Simons, Geoff Burnhill and Ian Lewins this medical education podcast is aimed at health care professionals new to paediatrics or those who occasionally care for children as part of a wider healthcare role.
Paediatric, respiratory and emergency clinicians get an evidence update on maternal RSV vaccination, childhood wheeze and diagnostic safety. Real-world UK data show reduced infant RSV admissions, particularly during the first three months, while paediatric asthma scores are framed as tools for monitoring and handover rather than stand-alone admission or discharge rules.
Paediatric, neonatal and emergency clinicians get a critical-appraisal update on prophylactic dextrose gel in at-risk newborns. The key distinction is prophylaxis versus treatment: routine gel does not improve school-age cognition, but documented neonatal hypoglycaemia still needs treatment alongside feeding. The episode also covers paediatric Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia risk stratification, limb injury decision rules, reasonable adjustments for essential care and ultrasound before chest drain insertion.
Paediatric, psychiatry and emergency teams get a ward-safety update for young people awaiting specialist mental health care. Repeated structured checks, environmental risk reduction, therapeutic one-to-one observation and escalation sit alongside targeted safety-netting for reduced distal both-bone forearm fractures and cautious interpretation of toxic-ingestion data.
A febrile child with poor perfusion needs deliberate fluid use rather than automatic repeated boluses. The key shift is to record each mL/kg dose, reassess perfusion and mental state, and escalate if shock persists instead of continuing a fluid cycle.
Caregiver-reported fever in an infant under 90 days remains a risk-management problem even when the baby is afebrile at assessment. This is about using local pathways reliably while recognising both missed serious bacterial infection and avoidable over-investigation.
Paediatric knife injury is not just a wound problem. This release connects penetrating chest or neck trauma with safeguarding, prior service contact and resuscitation habits, then moves into febrile infants aged 29–60 days, lung ultrasound for pneumonia and palliative care communication.
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