Bacterial tracheitis is the most common paediatric airway emergency requiring admission to the regional paediatric intensive care unit in northern Ireland. We reviewed 89 admissions to our unit with ...

Correspondence to: Prof. M Levin, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.levin{at}ic.ac.uk Neisseria ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the ability of clinicians involved in the provision of paediatric intensive care to estimate cardiac index in ventilated children, based on physical examination and clinical and ...

Correspondence to Professor Gary Butler, Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, University College London Hospital NHS Trust, London NW1 2PQ, UK; gary.butler{at}ucl.ac.uk There has ...

Objective To determine whether infants with severe persistent sleep problems are at increased risk of (1) meeting diagnostic criteria for a psychiatric disorder (age 10 years), and (2) having elevated ...

Correspondence to Prof Dominic Wilkinson, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK; dominic.wilkinson{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk The prospect of vaccinating ...

Correspondence to Dr Susan Byrne, Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland; suabyrne{at}rcsi.ie Introduction ...

1 Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2 Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC, Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 3 ...

Objective Nurse home visiting (NHV) is designed to redress child and maternal health inequities. Of the previous trials to investigate NHV benefits beyond preschool, none were designed for populations ...

2 Division of Paediatric Medicine and the Paediatric Outcomes Research Team, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 3 Division of General Pediatrics, University ...

2 Great Ormond Street Hospital/Institute of Child Heath, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK An estimated 14 million of the world’s children are blind. A blind child is more likely to live in ...

6 Department of Paediatric Pharmacy, Great North Children's Hospital 7 Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Great North Children’s Hospital Methods We chose a common clinical problem as a functional ...