Day One

Day Two

45 minutes

Paediatric Toxicology at the ED

Dr Laura Hunter

Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, St Thomas’ Hospital, London

  • Key lessons
  • Liaison and coordination amongst specialities
  • What is next? - Future changes and sustainability

45 minutes

Is It a Fit or a Faint?

Dr Michael Yoong

Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Barts Health NHS Trust

  • Is it cardiac?
  • Metabolic causes/presentations
  • Why and when do an ECG
  • Central nervous causes
  • Febrile convulsions – who needs a septic screen?
  • Management of the child with a first fit

45 minutes

Common Problems in Neonates and Young Infants

Dr Maria Chalia

Neonatal Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London

  • Feeding problems
  • Poor weight gain – when to discharge, when to admit
  • The crying infant – diagnosis and management
  • Benign skin appearances
  • Jaundice
  • Critically Ill neonates

45 minutes

Gastro Emergencies

Dr Protima Deb

Consultant in Paediatric Gastroenterology, Royal London Hospital

  • GI bleeding – urgent and less urgent causes
  • Gastroenteritis – the acute management
  • Reflux and regurgitation
  • Non-surgical causes of abdominal pain
  • Foreign bodies in the GI tract
  • COVID-19 Gastro symptoms

45 minutes

Paediatric Radiology in the ED

Dr Saira Haque

Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, King's College Hospital, London

  • Fractures not to miss in the paediatric upper and lower limb
  • Interpretation of paediatric cervical spine x-rays
  • Paediatric chest imaging in the ED

45 minutes

Paediatric Mental Health

Dr Valeria Parlatini

Clinical Lecturer in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and ST6 in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, King’s College London

  • The impact of the pandemic on children's mental health
  • Differences among diagnostic groups
  • Families under pressure
  • Key issues for paediatricians

45 minutes

Infections and fever in young Children (inc. COVID-19)

Dr Alasdair Munro

Clinical Research Fellow in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, The NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility 

  • Is the child sick? – The assessment
  • COVID presenting to ED - The asymptomatic child and the child who had it.
  • Changes in practice, guidance and lessons following COVID
  • When is fever a problem?
  • The well child with a purpuric rash - differential diagnosis and disposal
  • How not to miss Kawasaki's disease in the ED

45 minutes

Legal Issues and Consent in Paediatric Emergencies

Dr Sally Old

Medicolegal Adviser, MDU Services Limited

  • Refusal to treatment – what are the child’s rights?
  • Knowing your rights
  • Consent in emergencies and COVID-19
  • COVID-19. Any issues?
  • PPE and changes in practice

45 minutes

Stabilising the Critically Ill Child in the DGH

Dr Andrew Jones

CATS (Children’s Acute Transport Service) and PICU (Paediatric Intensive Care Unit) Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London

  • Is the child sick? – The assessment
  • COVID presenting to ED - The asymptomatic child and the child who had it.
  • Changes in practice, guidance and lessons following COVID
  • When is fever a problem?
  • The well child with a purpuric rash - differential diagnosis and disposal
  • How not to miss Kawasaki's disease in the ED

45 minutes

Paediatric Surgery Problems in the Emergency Department

Mr Joseph Curry

Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London

  • Testicular pain and abdominal pain – common causes at different ages
  • How not to miss appendicitis in the young child
  • Life-threatening surgical problems in young children
  • Changes in procedures after Covid-19

45 minutes

Analgesia and Procedural Sedation

Dr Ffion Davies

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

  • Which analgesic by which route
  • How to manage risk associated with procedural sedation
  • Regional Anaesthesia – pros and cons

45 minutes

Update on Safeguarding

Dr Michelle Jacobs

Consultant in Emergency/Paediatric Emergency Medicine, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

  • Lessons from lockdowns and what has happened since
  • New/changing patterns of presentations
  • Key issues for paediatric emergencies
  • Challenging case studies

45 minutes

“Minor injury”: pitfalls and perils.

Dr Ffion Davies

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

  • Atypical head injury
  • Limp
  • Could it be NAI?
  • Subtle fractures
  • Toddlers and teenagers
  • Case scenarios

45 minutes

Imaging in NAI

Dr Marina Easty

Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London

  • Modalities
  • Epidemiology
  • Common injuries and common presentation
  • Skeletal survey and additional views