Don't Forget the Bubbles

Simon Carley is a consultant in Emergency Medicine working in adult and paediatric emergency and trauma centres in one of the busiest hospitals in Manchester, England.  He is also the founder of the excellent St Emlyn’s website. You are working in the Emergency Department and the standby phone rings…Professor Carley takes us on a journey...

During the festive season we all like games, right? So how about a game with a PEM twist? Let Drs Dani Hall, Rachael Mitchell and Sarah Davies take you on a PEM “Choose Your Own Adventure” to make your next presentation truly memorable.

Jane Munro is the Head of Rheumatology at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. It turns out that we all struggle with the same thing in rheumatology. It also turns out that, like paediatric dermatology, it’s not just all about the steroids. In that first or even that third encounter, it is all about history,...

Siobhan Wren is an ophthalmologist based at Imperial College in London. It’s a rotation that most of us skipped out on in medical school but with paediatric ocular trauma accounting for a third of all ocular trauma it is something that needs to be on our radar. In this talk she focuses on the first...

We are delighted to release our first guest podcast brought to you by the team at Fontanelle. ‘Tis the season to be snotty – and so host Dr Caroline Storey talks to General Paediatric Consultant Dr Claire Hollingsworth about everything bronchiolitis. Essential listening this time of year, particularly for trainees staring their paediatric rotations.

Grace Leo is a paediatric registrar who has been involved in the FOAMed community for the last 8 years and forms part of the Don’t Forget The Bubbles and SMACC conference teams. Through her journey she’s been able to realise dreams she hadn’t even imagined possible and has become an advocate for the importance of...

Jean Robinson is paediatric dermatology nurse specialist working at the Royal London Hospital. Her area of expertise is something we could all be a bit better managing – eczema. She might be one of the few people that can actually describe a rash in twenty words or less. She also knows more than just steroids...

We all know that chickenpox can be really unpleasant for children and their parents are often anxious to make them feel better by bringing the temperature down. So there’s no harm in treating them with ibuprofen, is there? Or could the Facebook groups be right and ibuprofen should be avoided at all costs. In this...

Imagine a world where you could teach CPR from a thousand miles away, a world where you can guide clinicians on the other side of the world. In this groundbreaking talk from DFTB19 Camilla Sørensen tackles another side of virtual reality. This one involves the clinician as power user.

Wellness programmes are very in vogue at the moment but how do you go about setting up one from scratch in your own Emergency Department and do they *really* make a difference? We asked these questions, and more, of Dr Dan Magnus, PEM Consultant in Bristol and found out about the ‘You Got This’ programme...