Objective To determine whether any children in the UK had variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Design This active ...

Introduction Trauma is the leading cause of death in children over 1 year of age in the UK. However, individual prehospital ...

1 Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Working Group on Recognising Acute Illness in Children, London, UK 2 Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, UK 3 Department ...

Background: Current best practice for treating acute severe pain in children is to administer intravenous or intranasal opioid. Intranasal diamorphine offers less traumatic analgesia than the ...

2 Great Ormond Street Hospital/Institute of Child Heath, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK An estimated 14 million of the world’s children are blind. A blind child is more likely to live in ...

1 Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK 2 Department of Paediatric Otolaryngology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to Yogesh ...

Correspondence to Dr Amy Jane Stevens, Health Education England Yorkshire and the Humber, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; amyjanestevens{at}doctors.org.uk The numbers of people forcibly displaced from their homes ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate physical activity energy expenditure (AEE) in groups of free living infants in the first year of life. DESIGN Mixed longitudinal study of 124 healthy infants, using 232 ...

Base deficit is a parameter often used to guide further treatment in acidotic children and is taken as a measure of how “sick” they are. Five children with septic shock are presented who had ...

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