Don't Forget the Bubbles

We are delighted to bring you another guest podcast from our friends at The Paediatric Commuter. This week host Dr Alexandra Pelivan talks to Consultant Paediatrician Dr Lee Husdon about Anorexia Nervosa and other eating disorders

When a medical student starts their paediatric ED rotation they need to know three key illnesses and that will cover the majority of patients that they see. To round out the ABC trifecta of asthma and crapping (acute gastroenteritis) we have bronchiolitis. At #DFTB19 Ed Oakley from PREDICT gave us the latest.

In this weeks COVID Catch Up – thoughts on the impact of the death of George Floyd, how paediatricians should approach school closures, and what winter may bring.

After spending 12 years as the Director of the Division of Sports Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Dr. Raukar joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in 2018 as full-time faculty. In this fascinating talk she explores what happens to those...

Featuring quite possibly the worst pun ever, the DFTB podcast brings you episode 1 of a new feature: The Three Muskapeers. Three guests have a virtual chat round the coffee table and peer review three journal papers that have caught their attention each month. In this pilot episode Damian Roland, Alasdair Munro and Ian Lewins...

Russell Viner is the President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Whilst politics has consumed a large part of his working week his day job, and principle interest is in adolescent health.  To some of us, adolescents can seem as alien as neonates, with their own language, their own pathology, and their...

In this week’s COVID catch up – why we can’t take the medical knowledge we’ve got as doctors for granted in the debate about schools opening and the winter waiting room challenge. 

Anne Weaver is a consultant in Emergency Medicine & Prehospital Care at The Royal London Hospital and Lead Clinician for London’s Air Ambulance. In this talk she shares her experience of caring for the ever-increasing number of stabbing victims in the United Kingdom. There is a disconnect between what adult trauma surgeons and paediatric trauma...

In this week’s COVID Catch up an acknowledgement that some of the communication challenges that COVID has created aren’t new, some early information on the emerging inflammatory condition and a heads up to the RECOVERY trial.

Helen Bevan is the Director of Service Transformation for the National Health Service Institute for Innovation and Improvement. The NHS is one of the biggest employers in the world. When it was established in 1948 the average life expectancy for men was 66 and 71 for women. As science has advanced and the population becomes...