Don't Forget the Bubbles

One of the challenges of paediatrics is how to distill a life of experience down to something more tangible. When you are asked “How did you know s/he was sick?” you need to be able to give a better answer than “I just know”. In this session from DFTB19  we challenged three clinicians to explain...

One of the challenges of paediatrics is how to distill a life of experience down to something more tangible. When you are asked “How did you know s/he was sick?” you need to be able to give a better answer than “I just know”. In this session from DFTB19  we challenged three clinicians to explain...

Rheumatic Fever is one of those conditions that all good paediatric trainees diligently learn about and then promptly never see for 10 years. Unless of course you happen to live and work in the Northern Territory of Australia. In this episode of the podcast we talk to Dr Claire Chandler, a paediatric registrar in Alice...

One of the challenges of paediatrics is how to distill a life of experience down to something more tangible. When you are asked “How did you know s/he was sick?” you need to be able to give a better answer than “I just know“. In this session from DFTB19  we challenged three clinicians to explain...

In this final talk from the PERUKI stream Tom Waterfield from Belfast talking about the Petechiae in Children or PIC study. Perhaps it was the story of Ezra and his mum, Sorina, who Tom had treated as a PICU registrar that fuelled his interest in research? But what he recognized, when he went to work...

Kerry Woolfall is a social scientist and senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool. This talk, our second from the PERUKI track, she talks about doing research without prior parent and patient consent.  Following legislative changes in 2008 it is now possible (in the UK at least) to enter a child into a trial of...

In this first session from the PERUKI track Meriel Tolhurst-Cleaver spoke about her research into peri-orbital cellulitis. As a self-confessed non-academic she led the first trainee-led PERUKI study and reminds us that we can all get involved in research. She talks about some of the challenges in undertaking her study but most importantly she releases...

In this week’s podcast we take a deep dive into the recently published EcLiPSE trial with one of the lead authors, Dr Shrouk Messahel. We discuss the background to and results of this important study and talk about the methodology of entering children into trails without prior consent.

Curious as to what a Schwartz Round is but never having quite got round to attending one, I spoke to Becky Platt, an Advanced Clinical Practitioner at the Royal London Hospital and passionate Schwartz-er to discover what these events are all about. Becky explains the why, what and how of Schwartz rounds and I defy you, having listened to her, not to be keen to attend a round at your hospital. Maybe you might even start one yourself…

Shweta Gidwani graduated from Seth G.S. Medical College, Mumbai, India in 2002. S. She has been involved in the development of emergency care service delivery and training programs in India for several years and was invited to join the International Emergency Medicine section at George Washington University as Adjunct Asst Professor in 2013 where she works on the India programs.

This talk, the opening talk proper after Mary set the scene, is a stark reminder of just how the world really works.