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51 Paediatric emergency clinicians are rarely exposed to non-airway critical procedures: a predict/PERN study (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions. BACKGROUND: Recent studies suggest that approximately one p... Read More about 51 Paediatric emergency clinicians are rarely exposed to non-airway critical procedures: a predict/PERN study.

Guidelines for the use of chest radiographs in community-acquired pneumonia in children and adolescents (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, The Author(s). National guidance from the United Kingdom and the United States on community-acquired pneumonia in children states that chest radiographs are not recommended routinely in uncomplicated cases. The main reason in the ambulatory s... Read More about Guidelines for the use of chest radiographs in community-acquired pneumonia in children and adolescents.

A qualitative feasibility study to inform a randomised controlled trial of fluid bolus therapy in septic shock (2017)
Journal Article

© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. Objective The Fluids in Shock (FiSh) Trial proposes to evaluate whether restrictive fluid bolus therapy (10 mL/ kg) is more benef... Read More about A qualitative feasibility study to inform a randomised controlled trial of fluid bolus therapy in septic shock.

Perspectives of hospital emergency department staff on trauma-informed care for injured children: An Australian and New Zealand analysis (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Paediatrics and Child Health Division (The Royal Australasian College of Physicians) Aim: To examine Australian and New Zealand emergency department (ED) staff's training, knowledge and confidence regarding trauma-informed care for children af... Read More about Perspectives of hospital emergency department staff on trauma-informed care for injured children: An Australian and New Zealand analysis.

Diagnostic accuracy of the NEXUS II head injury clinical decision rule in children. A PREDICT prospective cohort study (2017)
Journal Article

Aims Clinical decision rules (CDRs) can be applied in Emergency Departments (EDs) to optimise the use of computed tomography (CT) in children with head trauma. The National Emergency X- Radiography Utilisation Study II (NEXUS II) CDR, as amended for... Read More about Diagnostic accuracy of the NEXUS II head injury clinical decision rule in children. A PREDICT prospective cohort study.

Defining mild traumatic brain injury: How classification differs across studies when applied to a large prospective data set. A PREDICT prospective cohort study (2017)
Journal Article

Aims Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children is a major public health issue, yet there is wide variation in the way ‘mild’ TBI is defined in the literature and in guidelines. To date no study has prospectively detailed the proportion of childre... Read More about Defining mild traumatic brain injury: How classification differs across studies when applied to a large prospective data set. A PREDICT prospective cohort study.

Confirmation of traumatic cardiac arrest in children: A literature review to inform the peruki ptca consensus study (2017)
Journal Article

Aims Traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) is associated with high mortality and poor neurological outcomes. Several methods of confirming cardiac arrest are utilised including auscultation of heart sounds, palpation of pulses and echocardiography. We did a... Read More about Confirmation of traumatic cardiac arrest in children: A literature review to inform the peruki ptca consensus study.