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Mashup Score: 3What's hot on fever? - 11 day(s) ago
Listen to this episode from The paeds round – from RCPCH and Medisense on Spotify. It’s January and all the children are back in school. And that means it’s a chance to swap viruses and herald in the new year with fevers! This month’s episode has the answers to your questions as child health professionals on this burning problem. Should you worry about the height of the fever? Should you give antipyretics? How do you reassure parents and carers that fevers are part of everyday life? All of these issues are discussed, along with a passionate plea to make hand washing great again. So don’t get hot under the collar, listen to The Paeds Round as we take time out to chat to special guest, Dr Alasdair Munro, senior clinical research fellow in paediatric infectious diseases at the University of Southampton (https://alasdairmunro.substack.com/about and https://twitter.com/apsmunro). With your hosts, Dr Emma Lim and Dr Christo Tsilifis. Download transcript (PDF) This podcast is a collaboration
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Mashup Score: 3Don't fear the fever - 17 day(s) ago
This much misunderstood symptom is actually good for you, although it doesn’t feel like it
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Mashup Score: 1VisualV1 - Search - 18 day(s) ago
Close Created with Sketch. Search for an online learning, webinar or podcast Listen to real-world advice and guidance on how to manage a range of clinical topics and much else on education, training and working in paediatrics. With Dr Emma Lim, Consultant Paediatrician and Dr Christo Tsilifis, Academic Paediatric Trainee, plus parents, paediatric specialists and junior doctors. NEW EPISODE AVAILABLE NOW! Episode 4: What’s hot on fever? Listen to real-world advice and guidance on how to manage a range of
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Mashup Score: 13Oh my G.O.R.D - 26 day(s) ago
Why acid suppression for infants with reflux is almost always a mistake
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Mashup Score: 9The Munro Report | Alasdair Munro | Substack - 27 day(s) ago
Thousands of subscribers. A newsletter with analysis on issues affecting science, medical research, child health and infectious diseases. Click to read The Munro Report, by Alasdair Munro, a Substack publication.
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Mashup Score: 13Time for paediatrics to screen out sepsis “screening” - 1 month(s) ago
It is time to remove the term, “sepsis screen,” from the paediatric lexicon, argue these authors Despite the success of vaccinations against organisms such as Haemophilus influenza type B and Neisseria meningitidis,1 mortality and morbidity from these invasive infections remains high. One in five deaths in children were associated with infection pre-pandemic.2 This includes neonates who are particularly vulnerable due to immature immune systems and, in whom worldwide, infection rates have increased over the last 20 years.3 The sequelae of infection can cause lasting morbidity, through limb amputation, chronic respiratory disease and organ impairment, as well as death. As such, an aggressive approach is often taken to managing infection in children, particularly in the pre-school period, including a low threshold for numerous investigations and empirical antibiotics. The practice of investigating febrile children has become so common, its own terminology, the “sepsis screen” has develop
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Mashup Score: 401Early Physician Gestalt Versus Usual Screening Tools for the Prediction of Sepsis in Critically Ill Emergency Patients - 1 month(s) ago
Compare physician gestalt to existing screening tools for identifying sepsis in the initial minutes of presentation when time-sensitive treatments must be initiated.
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Mashup Score: 4TikTok · Phage Frontiers - 1 month(s) ago
Check out Phage Frontiers’s video.
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Mashup Score: 4Marketing campaign launches to drive up childhood vaccinations - 2 month(s) ago
UKHSA Chief Executive Professor Dame Jenny Harries visits Manchester and Liverpool to launch campaign as measles cases continue to rise.
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Mashup Score: 2Hot Garbage: Mythbusting fever in children - 3 month(s) ago
Time for @apsmunro to bust some fever myths
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RT @cinarervanur: Really enjoyed this episode at @RCPCHtweets Paeds Round Podcast by @apsmunro! https://t.co/hSe96CkvtZ ‘Observation is t…