Children and young people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) often require support when faced with the common illnesses and infections of childhood. Illnesses particularly associated with fever can cause ...

Family integrated care (FICare) is an advanced model of neonatal healthcare practice, seeking to recognise and promote parents as both primary caregivers and partners within the healthcare team.1 ...

*Idiopathic thrombocytopaenic purpura , acute cerebellar ataxia and acute hemiparesis have all been reported rarely after varicella vaccination but have not been conclusively found to be caused by the ...

Historically, vascular rings, formed by a right or double aortic arch, have been diagnosed in childhood following symptoms or signs of tracheo-oesophageal compression. Many of these features might be ...

In 1901, building on the earlier work of Matteuci and Waller, Einthoven created the first string galvanometer and assigned letters to each specific deflection.1 This was the birth of the ECG as we ...

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Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) refers to a range of conditions that disrupt normal breathing patterns during sleep, including apnoeas, hypopnoeas and/or hypoventilation. It affects between 2% and 11 ...

Optimising patient experience is a key part of effective healthcare for adults. Babies, children and young people are entitled to the same high-quality healthcare experience. This is the first ...

Quality improvement project implementing the Genedrive MT-RNR1 point-of-care technology into a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Gentamicin is a commonly used aminoglycoside antibiotic. The ...

Introduction of a visual communication toolkit into child protection medical assessments (CPMAs) to ensure that verbal communication is never a barrier to being heard—a multi-agency quality ...

A quality improvement (QI) project was established in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to reduce late-onset sepsis (LOS) through multiple plan–do–study–act (PDSA) cycles focusing on hygiene, ...