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Assessing the impacts of the first year of rotavirus vaccination in the United Kingdom (2015)
Journal Article
Marlow, R., Muir, P., Vipond, B., Lyttle, M., Trotter, C., & Finn, A. (2015). Assessing the impacts of the first year of rotavirus vaccination in the United Kingdom. Eurosurveillance, 20(48), https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.48.30077

© 2015, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights reserved. The United Kingdom (UK) added rotavirus (RV) vaccine (Rotarix GlaxoSmithKline) to the national vaccine schedule in July 2013. During the 2012–2014 rotavirus seaso... Read More about Assessing the impacts of the first year of rotavirus vaccination in the United Kingdom.

Trends in admission and death rates due to paediatric head injury in England, 2000-2011 (2015)
Journal Article
Marlow, R., Mytton, J., Maconochie, I. K., Taylor, H., & Lyttle, M. (2015). Trends in admission and death rates due to paediatric head injury in England, 2000-2011. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 100(12), 1136-1140. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-308615

Background The number of children admitted to hospital is increasing year on year, with very short-stay admissions doubling in the last decade. Childhood head injury accounts for half a million emergency department attendances in the UK every year. T... Read More about Trends in admission and death rates due to paediatric head injury in England, 2000-2011.

Establishing the research priorities of paediatric emergency medicine clinicians in the UK and Ireland (2015)
Journal Article
Hartshorn, S., O'Sullivan, R., Maconochie, I. K., Bevan, C., Cleugh, F., & Lyttle, M. (2015). Establishing the research priorities of paediatric emergency medicine clinicians in the UK and Ireland. Emergency Medicine Journal, 32(11), 864-868. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2014-204484

Objective: Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland (PERUKI) is a collaborative clinical studies group established in August 2012. It consists of a network of 43 centres from England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and aims... Read More about Establishing the research priorities of paediatric emergency medicine clinicians in the UK and Ireland.

Are you a SCEPTIC? SoCial mEdia Precision and uTility in Conferences (2015)
Journal Article
Lyttle, M. D., Roland, D., May, N., Body, R., Carley, S., & Lyttle, M. (2015). Are you a SCEPTIC? SoCial mEdia Precision and uTility in Conferences. Emergency Medicine Journal, 32(5), 412-413. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2014-204216

We analysed Twitter feeds at an emergency medicine scientific conference to determine the (1) accuracy of disseminated educational messages and the (2) use in providing rapid feedback to speakers. Most speakers were happy for key messages to be tweet... Read More about Are you a SCEPTIC? SoCial mEdia Precision and uTility in Conferences.

Paediatric ED reattendance rates: Comparing nurse practitioners and other clinicians (2015)
Journal Article
Lyttle, M. D., Benger, J. R., Feetham, J. E., Christian, W., Benger, J., Hoskins, R., …Lyttle, M. (2015). Paediatric ED reattendance rates: Comparing nurse practitioners and other clinicians. Emergency Medicine Journal, 32(5), 379-382. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2013-203514

Objective The aim of this project is to establish the unplanned reattendance rate for paediatric emergency nurse practitioners (PENPs) working in a designated paediatric emergency department (PED) while identifying the case mix of patients seen by PE... Read More about Paediatric ED reattendance rates: Comparing nurse practitioners and other clinicians.

The accuracy of existing prehospital triage tools for injured children in England: An analysis using emergency department data (2015)
Journal Article
Ardolino, A., Cheung, C. R., Lawrence, T., Bouamra, O., Lecky, F., Berry, K., …Maconochie, I. (2015). The accuracy of existing prehospital triage tools for injured children in England: An analysis using emergency department data. Emergency Medicine Journal, 32(5), 397-400. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2013-203251

Objective To investigate the performance characteristics in children with moderate and minor injuries of prehospital paediatric triage tools currently in use in England for identifying seriously injured children. Methods Eight prehospital paediatric... Read More about The accuracy of existing prehospital triage tools for injured children in England: An analysis using emergency department data.

Identifying challenges with paediatric procedural sedation in the ED setting in Ireland and the UK: A Paediatric Emergency Research in the United Kingdom and Ireland (PERUKI) study (2015)
Presentation / Conference
McCoy, S., Lyttle, M., Hartshorn, S., Larkin, P., Brenner, M., & O'Sullivan, R. (2015, April). Identifying challenges with paediatric procedural sedation in the ED setting in Ireland and the UK: A Paediatric Emergency Research in the United Kingdom and Ireland (PERUKI) study. Paper presented at Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Annual Conference 2015, Birmingham, UK

Variation in treatment of acute childhood wheeze in emergency departments of the United Kingdom and Ireland: An international survey of clinician practice (2015)
Journal Article
Lyttle, M. D., Lyttle, M., O'Sullivan, R., Doull, I., Hartshorn, S., Morris, I., …Bolger, T. (2015). Variation in treatment of acute childhood wheeze in emergency departments of the United Kingdom and Ireland: An international survey of clinician practice. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 100(2), 121-125. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-306591

© 2015, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Objective: National clinical guidelines for childhood wheeze exist, yet despite being one of the most common reasons for childhood emergency department (ED) attendance, signi ficant variation in prac... Read More about Variation in treatment of acute childhood wheeze in emergency departments of the United Kingdom and Ireland: An international survey of clinician practice.

Which intravenous bronchodilators are being administered to children presenting with acute severe wheeze in the UK and Ireland? (2015)
Journal Article
Powell, C. V., Lyttle, M. D., Morris, I., Lyttle, M., O'Sullivan, R., Sargant, N., …Powell, C. (2015). Which intravenous bronchodilators are being administered to children presenting with acute severe wheeze in the UK and Ireland?. Thorax, 70(1), 88-91. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-206041

During a prospective 10-week assessment period, 3238 children aged 1-16 years presented with acute wheeze to Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland centres. 110 (3.3%) received intravenous bronchodilators. Intravenous magnesium sulfate (... Read More about Which intravenous bronchodilators are being administered to children presenting with acute severe wheeze in the UK and Ireland?.

A prospective observational study to assess the diagnostic accuracy of clinical decision rules for children presenting to emergency departments after head injuries (protocol): The Australasian Paediatric Head Injury Rules Study (APHIRST) (2014)
Journal Article
Oakley, E., Williams, A., Crowe, L., Jachno, K., Donath, S., Neutze, J., …Furyk, J. (2014). A prospective observational study to assess the diagnostic accuracy of clinical decision rules for children presenting to emergency departments after head injuries (protocol): The Australasian Paediatric Head Injury Rules Study (APHIRST). BMC Pediatrics, 14(1), 148. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-14-148

Background: Head injuries in children are responsible for a large number of emergency department visits. Failure to identify a clinically significant intracranial injury in a timely fashion may result in long term neurodisability and death. Whilst cr... Read More about A prospective observational study to assess the diagnostic accuracy of clinical decision rules for children presenting to emergency departments after head injuries (protocol): The Australasian Paediatric Head Injury Rules Study (APHIRST).

G12 what are the research priorities of paediatric emergency medicine clinicians in the United Kingdom and Ireland? An international survey (2014)
Journal Article
Hartshorn, S., Bevan, C., Cleugh, F., Lyttle, M., Maconochie, I. K., & O'Sullivan, R. (2014). G12 what are the research priorities of paediatric emergency medicine clinicians in the United Kingdom and Ireland? An international survey. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 99(Supp1), A5-A6. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-306237.12

Early management of head injury: Summary of updated NICE guidance (2014)
Journal Article
Lecky, F., Pollit, V., Hodgkinson, S., Pollitt, V., & Sharpin, C. (2014). Early management of head injury: Summary of updated NICE guidance. BMJ, 348, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g104

Head injury is the commonest cause of death and disability in people aged 1-40 years in the UK. Each year, 1.4 million people attend emergency departments in England and Wales with a recent head injury. The National Institute for Health and Care Exce... Read More about Early management of head injury: Summary of updated NICE guidance.

From cradle to adolescence: The development of Research in European Pediatric Emergency Medicine (2014)
Journal Article
Lyttle, M. D., Mintegi, S., Lyttle, M., MacOnochie, I. K., Benito, J., Gervaix, A., …Waisman, Y. (2014). From cradle to adolescence: The development of Research in European Pediatric Emergency Medicine. European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 21(1), 24-29. https://doi.org/10.1097/MEJ.0b013e328364d807

Pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) has been developing rapidly but heterogeneously in many European countries in recent years, and many national PEM societies have been founded to improve the quality of care of ill and injured children and adolescent... Read More about From cradle to adolescence: The development of Research in European Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

When do children get burnt? (2014)
Journal Article
Lyttle, M. D., Verey, F., Lyttle, M., Lawson, Z., Greenwood, R., & Young, A. (2014). When do children get burnt?. Burns, 40(7), 1322-1328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2014.01.010

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved. Burns are a cause of more than 5000 paediatric hospital admissions per year in England and Wales. Injury prevention and service provision may be better planned with knowledge of burn timing. Prospect... Read More about When do children get burnt?.