6: A young girl with a vaginal discharge
Case 6 A young girl with a vaginal discharge Gemma, a 5-year-old girl, is brought to the ED by her mother, Sara, who says that Gemma has had a thick…
PEDIATRICS
1: Errors and their causes
Number % Medication/vaccination error 10 5.1 Delayed/failed diagnosis of septicaemia 8 4.1 Delayed/failed diagnosis of meningitis 7 3.6 Extravasation 7 3.6 Delayed/failed diagnosis of unspecified sepsis 6 3.1 Delayed diagnosis…
2: Medico-legal aspects
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> Section 2: Medico-legal aspects Error in a legal context So far, we have discussed medical error in general, non-legal terms. Now we shall consider it from a strictly…
Outcome statistics
CHAPTER 32 Outcome statistics Mark Davies The following statistics for survival and morbidity relate to outcomes of interest at the time of hospital discharge. The outcomes shown are for babies…
The ready reckoner
CHAPTER 33 The ready reckoner Mark Davies The following pages contain information useful when admitting a sick infant to intensive care. The tables contain information (by infant weight) on the…
Resuscitation
CHAPTER 2 Resuscitation David Cartwright, Garry Inglis, Mark Davies Assessment Many physiological changes occur when a fetus becomes hypoxic and/or ischaemic in utero. After delivery, varying degrees of cardiorespiratory depression…
Respiratory support
CHAPTER 4 Respiratory support Mark Davies, David Cartwright, Luke Jardine Respiratory distress Respiratory distress, and the need for respiratory support, is one of the most common problems seen in neonatal…
Procedures
CHAPTER 3 Procedures David Cartwright, Mark Davies Skin disinfection — general principles Whenever we break the skin integrity of a baby, we run the risk of making a skin-colonising organism…
