Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Royal Hospitals Trust, Hackney Road, London E2 8PS, UK Dr S A McKenzie, Queen Elizabeth Children’s Services, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB, ...

Objective To describe infants with acute gastroenteritis symptoms in primary and secondary care who have the Rotarix vaccine-derived G1P[8] rotavirus strain identified in their stools. Design This is ...

Objective Cefepime, a fourth-generation cephalosporin, is used in the treatment of severe nosocomial infections in neonates. Pharmacokinetics of cefepime was limited. Therefore, we aimed to study the ...

Correspondence to Dr Vianney Gilard, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, APHP, Paris 5 University, Paris 75015, France; vianneygilard{at}hotmail.fr Objective The aim ...

Background Acute chest syndromes (ACS) may be associated with upper respiratory tract infections, but the epidemiology of viral and intracellular respiratory pathogens in children with sickle cell ...

Correspondence to Dr Kathleen E Walsh, Benedict Second Floor, UMass Medical Center, 55 North Lake Avenue, Worcester, MA 01655, USA; walshk02{at}ummhc.org Background Children with chronic conditions ...

AIM To compare the effectiveness of EMLA cream and Ametop gel in providing analgesia for venous cannulation. METHODS Single blind study in 120 children. RESULTS Both anaesthetic agents produced ...

Objective To design a clinical guideline for the emergency management of retained button batteries (RBBs) through analysis of UK National Health Service hospital guidelines and published literature.

From the age of 3 to 24 months, capillary Hb levels were measured on normal term infants who received no medicinal iron from any source. The mean and standard deviations are recorded at 3-monthly ...

Correspondence to Professor Andrew K Ewer, Neonatal Unit, Birmingham Womens Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TG, UK; a.k.ewer{at}bham.ac.uk In May 2019, the National Screening Committee (NSC) announced a ...

Correspondence to Merel M Nap-van der Vlist, Paediatrics, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht 3508AB, The Netherlands; m.m.vandervlist-3{at}umcutrecht.nl ...

Aims In 2018 the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) launched ‘Each and Every Need: a review of the quality of care provided to patients 0–25 with chronic ...