Mark chats us through commonly occurring respiratory disorders such as wheezing, asthma, breath stacking, pneumonia and COVID in the paediatric patient 

Top Tips: 

1. Take your time and ask questions to try and work out where in the respiratory tract the problem is.  A good history will aid this

Resources: 

Resuscitation council UK Paediatric basic life support guidelines   

Paediatric basic life support Guidelines | Resuscitation Council UK 

Biography:

Mark is a Paediatric Intensivist at Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, a consultant in Paediatric Critical Care Transport at ScotSTAR and a responder and Co-Director for pre-Hospital care for BASICS Scotland. His interests include the management of critically unwell children anywhere.