Update on Paediatric Emergencies Course
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- This course is designed for Consultants, Registrars and Middle Grades working in General ED, Paediatrics and Paediatric ED, who see paediatric patients presenting as an emergency.
- Format: Short lectures followed by Q&A sessions
- APPROVED FOR CPD: RCPCH has approved this activity in accordance with the current RCPCH guidelines. Infomed will provide a certifcate with this statement and 12 study hours
DAY ONE
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
DAY TWO
50 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
50 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
30 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
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
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
Paediatric diabetes presenting at the ED
Dr Caroline Ponmani
Consultant in Emergency Medicine,
Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine,
Barking Havering and Redbridge University Trust, London
- Clinical characteristics and patterns of presentation
- Hypo and hyperglycaemia: a practical guide
- Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
60 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
About the course
- Our most popular annual course - Running since 2005
- For Consultants, Registrars and Middle Grades working in General ED, Paediatrics and Paediatric ED, who see paediatric patients presenting as an emergency.
- Aimed at those who are looking for a comprehensive, fact filled and stimulating update.
- A practical focus on the most difficult aspects of paediatric emergencies that Doctors need to deal with daily in the critical first hours
Our expert faculty, consisting of experts from the Paediatric Emergency Department and other associated Paediatric specialties with years of experience in teaching and disseminating skills and practical knowledge to peers from leading hospitals
Course director
Dr Laura Hunter
Dr Laura Hunter is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Toxicology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London. She completed Emergency Medicine Higher Specialist Training in Merseyside Deanery, prior to her move to London in 2010. Special areas of interest include recreational drug toxicity, Inclusion Health and the development of Routine Blood Borne Virus screening within the Emergency Department.
Faculty members
Dr Protima Deb
Dr Protima Deb is a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist working at The Royal London Hospital. Her early paediatric training was at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London, where she achieved Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics in 2006. She was appointed to the Higher Specialist Training Programme in Paediatric Gastroenterology in The London Deanery and completed her training in 2014.
Dr Deb is a "self-confessed research enthusiast". Her specialist area of interest is inflammatory bowel disease. Her work looking at the microbiome in childhood Crohn’s disease was the subject of her doctoral thesis which she was awarded from Queen Mary University of London in 2019. She continues her research work with an honorary contract at Queen Mary University, based at the Blizard institute, where she continues to explore the field of microbiome and inflammatory bowel disease.
Dr Maria Chalia
Neonatal Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London
Trained in East of England and London, has an MD from the University of Cambridge and completed a year of neurophysiology for the under ones
Maria specialises in neonatal EEG
Mr Joseph Curry
Mr Curry is the senior consultant in neonatal and paediatric surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
His main areas of interest are in gastrointestinal (bowel) surgery and treating children born with abnormalities of the abdominal wall, diaphragm and gastrointestinal tract.
He is currently the South England representative on the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons executive committee. He holds a post-graduate Certificate and Diploma in medical education from the University of London. He is a member of faculty of surgical trainers at the Edinburgh College of Surgeons.
He has published over one hundred peer-reviewed articles and 16 book chapters and presented over one hundred and ten times to national and international conferences. He regularly reviews articles for journals such as the Journal of Paediatric Surgery, Paediatric Surgery International and Prenatal Diagnosis and is the speciality editor for the annals of the royal college of surgeons.
Dr Ffion Davies
Dr Ffion Davies is an Emergency Physician sub-specialising in paediatric emergency consultant at the University Hospitals of Leicester in the UK
Her career has been dedicated to raising standards of care for children in emergency departments via education and working with governments. To that end, she has been involved with developing training programmes for doctors in Emergency Medicine and in Paediatrics, creating the eLearning website spottingthesickchild.com
Amongst her publications she authored a textbook Emergency Care of Minor Trauma in Children, now in its third edition. She is a contributor to learning tools across the popular EM3 platforms - website www.em3.org.uk
She was President of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) 2022-2024 and continues to serve IFEM in an Immediate Past President role.
Dr Marina Easty
Consultant Paediatric Radiologist Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
Dr Saira Haque
Saira is a Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, King's College Hospital, London. She has been a consultant at King’s since 2011 and her special interests include in Musculoskeletal and MR imaging.
Dr Michelle Jacobs
Michelle is an RCEM consultant with subspecialty accreditation in paediatric emergency medicine and works at Northwick Park hospital in Harrow, as the ED clinical lead for paediatric ED.
Her area of interest and focus for several years has been on the management of adolescents in the ED and beyond- delivery of developmentally appropriate healthcare for this often neglected age group and working towards improving the experience and the care which we provide to them. On this topic she has researched and published and spoken at many national meetings and events. She is also a member of the RCEM Paediatric Emergency Medicine professional advisory group and the RCPCH intercollegiate emergency standards committee to further this work.
Dr Andrew Jones
Dr Andrew Jones is a Consultant at the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and at the Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS).
His professional interest include
• Paediatric critical care transport
• Medical education and clinical simulation
• Dr Jones is also unit training director for paediatric intensive care medicine at Gosh
Andrew is a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and a Member of the Paediatric Intensive Care
Dr Alasdair Munro
Dr Alasdair Munro is a clinician in paediatric emergency medicine and a clinical research fellow specialising in paediatric infectious diseases, including early and late phase clinical trials of vaccines and antibiotics, at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility Southampton and University of Southampton, that is the National Institute for Health and Care Research
Since 2020 he has been leading the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health review of published evidence regarding COVID-19 in children, as well as working as senior fellow on a number of COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials, including the Oxford vaccine. Dr Munro sits on the NIHR Transmission of COVID-19 in Schools (ToCS) working group .
Dr Munro’s research interests include vaccinology and clinical trials, as well as the transmission of COVID-19 in children and the role of schools in wider community transmission.
Other research interests include antimicrobial stewardship and the advanced diagnostic methods for infections in children.
Dr Sally Old
Medicolegal Adviser, MDU Services Limited
Sally was a consultant in oncology before joining the MDU in 2006. She now has almost 15 years’ experience of advising MDU members from all specialties about medicolegal matters, these include complaints, inquests, crime and the GMC.
For Sally, consent and authority to treat, are often fundamental to the issues that arise, especially so where there is a disagreement as to the appropriate way forward between the various parties such as the patient, those caring for them (including the parents), and the medical team.
Dr Valeria Parlatini
Dr Valeria Parlatini is a clinical lecturer and child and adolescent psychiatrist at King's College London and South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust. Her research aims at the identification of predictors of mental health outcomes that can be used to personalise and improve clinical care. She received three international awards, including the Young Scientist Award at the World Congress on ADHD. Recently, she has been awarded the Academy of Medical Sciences Starter Grant to investigate the impact of the Covid pandemic on the mental health of children and young people with pre-existing mental health conditions.
Dr Caroline Ponmani
Caroline is an endocrinologist and the clinical lead of the Children's Emergency Department at Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust. She qualified in India, received her MD in Paediatrics and completed her paediatric training in London. Caroline is passionate about integrating acute paediatrics with endocrinology and diabetes. She is interested in clinical research and in nurturing junior doctors and nurses to create a culture of curiosity and learning in the Emergency department. Her recent research projects and publications exploring the link between paediatric diabetes and COVID are joint collaborations between emergency medicine and endocrinology.
Dr Michael Yoong
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Barts Health NHS Trust
Comments from attendees in 2024
- Great course – happy with the coverage, pearls and recaps
- Very good conference and well organised. I enjoyed how interactive the course was with Slido and the chat. All presenters were very informative and well prepared
- Very useful coverage, it was a really useful course and I do feel more confident about
- Working in Paeds ED than I did before, this what I wanted from this course – thanks you.
- This course covered most of the topics relevant to our practice at the Paeds ED.
- I think that more than 80% was very practical and really excellent high level coverage.
- Unfortunately, there was no coverage of respiratory issues
- All was so good, the diversity of the topics, the range and quality of speakers, the live interactive online presentation and access for review after, good value for money.
- Very well organised and run course
- TEAMs worked very well for me – I liked the live PowerPoint when it was used as I could scroll back to look at previous slides if I’d missed detail. Slido worked well, nice to have some interaction
- Jack was brilliant, good technical support and well done keeping time and guiding the sessions.
- Excellent, wide range of topics and very relevant to day to day practice
- This course had an very up to date and evidence based approach, topics stuck to what’s relevant in an emergency
- Such a good variety of speakers and topics covered, how interactive it was and all delivered by knowledgeable speakers.
- Smooth running with Teams some technical glitches quickly resolved by Jack at Informed
- Structure, coverage, faculty easy to follow, informative and professional
- Good coverage of topics, good refresher, good IT support and good Q&A sessions
- Experienced and talented faculty, range of topics including those of common concern e.g. the sick child, legal issues, Mental health – all good.
- Good length and number of lectures/material/presentation on line, coverage of topics, interaction in chat and slido
- The range of content/topics; all speakers were excellent in presenting and answering questions; having it on an online platform made it more accessible (watching from Scotland!)
- Clear explanations on every topic, sound organisation, relaxed atmosphere
- Good variation of topics, excellent IT support and very good speakers
- All the imaging brought in, especially in safeguarding and NAI. The surgical talk was spot on. The talk about minor injuries and sedation had all the little things we need to know when looking after children in ED.
- Very convenient as on line, varied programme and very good speakers and I loved the polling questions
- I enjoyed this course as it is, it is great, it lives up to its reputation. The current format works for me ,so struggling to suggest things to change/improve. Excellent course with lots of useful information
- Reinvigorated paediatric enthusiasm, very good update , a lot of the course material is transferrable to my daily practice straightaway.
- I have learnt to improve my approach to paediatric emergencies esp with Fits and Faints, Paediatric surgical emergencies and will put them into practice.
- Surely, I will use my new knowledge in practice at work, and to help others in my MDT
- I feel more confident being the senior decision maker in childrens ED and treating patients in resus
- I am more confident now in dealing the children with constipation and vomiting , fever when to escalate and to when to send patient safely
- Excellent achievement , sure it will reflect on my practice.
Comments from attendees in 2023
- Fantastic broad scope of coverage of many common complaints
- I have achieved what i have been aiming for.
- EXCELLENT covering of almost all conditions presenting to Paediatric ED
- Excellent course, good breadth of topics all delivered very well at an appropriate level
- The course has covered all aspects that I personally would encounter in an Emergency setting.
- Great Coverage of relevant topics and streaming was no problem – even on the school run, I could still listen through Bluetooth in the car with no problems – well done Infomed
- Excellent streaming quality, very good system, easy to access and excellent IT support which kept the momentum going.
- Very good to have knowledgeable and informative presentations on current practice delivered by credible speakers
- Very interactive, participation through chat, quizzes and post presentation questions
- Excellent topic coverage, and virtual, so I could attend from home and later having access to it for 120 days, all good thanks Informed
- Very informative , expert speakers and relevant; and I liked the poll ability, the involved chat which was well moderated and very good time management
- Coverage of topics were excellent. Speaks were qualified and had good communication skills. IT team was helpful and professional.
- Coverage of topics were excellent. Speaks were qualified and had good communication skills. IT team was helpful and professional.
- The interaction with the consultants, with no question being too stupid. The speakers’ experience – they all had significant paediatric exposure, making their expertise invaluable. Regular time off-screen.
- Excellent with knowledgeable speakers, appropriate interaction and good time keeping.
- All good: The range of talks; the calibre of presenters; lectures were evidence base and very clear
- Very good range of topics delivered in a timely manner by expert professional presenters all very useful sessions! Thanks to the organisers
- Opportunity to ask questions, variety of topics, good tech support for the presenters to avoid delays and stress
- All the topics were very important ones and the speakers were excellent; coordination, time keeping and cost effective
- Excellent content, very good speakers , well organised; good choice of expert speakers and coverage of the important topics. Overall a very well designed course and well organised as in previous years that I have attended; good on Informed.
- The depth of topics covered and the delivery by the clinicians; Availability of the contents after the course
- Several pearls of wisdoms; it has definitely increased my clinical knowledge and reinforced some knowledge and learned new things
- Very pertinent, it helped to keep up with recent advances and brush up some not so routinely used skills/ knowledge
- Consolidated some of my knowledge, and some others areas confidence to teach what I learnt.
- It will help me to apply my learnings today to various situations in my day to day practice
- It contributed lots to achieve my CPD goal.
- Learnt a lot especially as a PEM trainee. Alot to reflect on and will help contribute to the kind of Consultant I want to be.
- There are a number of recommendations that were suggested, which I shall attempt to implement within the trust after this course.
- As a neonatologist, I don’t normally practice general paediatrics but I do love keeping up to date with my knowledge so this course was very useful for me.
- more up to date with new guidelines, being more aware of what should be done in less frequent emergencies
- I will be using the information learned in my future practice and this will improve my management of patients presenting in the Peads ED
Comments from attendees in 2022
- A lot of what has been presented on the course I will come across in the ED, it’s enabled my further learning and will help in assessing, diagnosing, & managing these situations
- This course refresh my knowledge about paediatric emergencies and let me to build up confidence for managing patients in ED
- This course taught me several important things and I learned useful tips from very experienced colleagues.
- This Update will improve my practice in paediatric emergencies management with most up to date guidelines and management and diagnostic strategies
- Good positive impact and it will improve my attention to issues around NAI and Safeguarding
- Wide range of topics covered, highly knowledgeable speakers, all what we need at the DGHs
- Very good and experienced presenters. very well organised, practical, useful information given
- So happy to be part of this and get my CPDs at a much reduced cost and from the comfort of my home
- Wide range of topics covered, excellent speakers and up-to-date advice & guidance.
- Up to date information, high quality evidence to support our practice, relevant important topics
- Experienced faculties lecturing on relevant topics; time keeping good and very good support from Infomed.
- Good delivery / Covering practical aspects of paediatric presentations/ speakers with experience in the specialty
- The lectures very well presented and Infomed coordinators did an excellent work
- The fact you could do it at home And remove the expense of needing a hotel
- All good, knowledge and expertise of speakers wide range of relevant topics good connections
- Well organised, well timed, overall faculty very good – another excellent course by Infomed
- I liked the flexibility due to WebEx delivery and access to catchup recordings to review.
- The quality of streaming, the interaction of participants and the dedication of the faculty to deliver the course
- It was super relevant and a brilliant refresher for me- thanks – I feel much more confident returning to seeing children as patients
- All fantastic – extremely useful, up-to-date information and an excellent selection of presenters.
- It was good coverage and refreshed the knowledge with lots of good understanding; I attended it after couple of years and felt good attending it again.
- Excellent delivery on a range of presenting conditions in the emergency setting
- Excellent, very high level streaming, it really worked well and enjoyed the voting; I really felt like I was present at a live conference
- Excellent, very high level streaming, it really worked well and enjoyed the voting; I really felt like I was present at a live conference
- I thoroughly enjoyed it and took away some practice changing knowledge
- Great practical tips excellent speakers, good choice of relevant topics
- Excellent IT support and excellent moderators Luis, Jack and Oliver well done
- Excellent course covered lot of Paediatric Emergency Medicine topics could attend from the comfort of home up to date information delivered well by all presenters
- Extremely useful, up-to-date information and an excellent selection of presenters (all fantastic)
- It was super relevant and a brilliant refresher for me- thanks – I feel much more confident returning to seeing children as patients
- Good topics. Great Speakers. Good slides
- knowledge and expertise of speakers wide range of relevant topics good connections
- Great learning experience, up to date information, practical applications
- Good delivery / Covering practical aspects of paediatric presentations/ speakers with experience in the specialty
- Experienced faculties, Relevant topics, Time keeping generally good overall.
- up to date information, high quality evidence to support our practice, relevant important topics
- Wide range of topics covered, excellent speakers and up-to-date advice & guidance. Thank you.
- Well organised, well timed, overall faculty very good
- Course organisation/quality of speakers/ease of booking & logging in
- The quality of streaming, the interaction of participants and the dedication of the faculty to deliver the course
- Practicality. Speakers obviously knowledgable The fact you could do it at home And remove the expense of needing a hotel
- Coverage and felt like I was present at a live conference
- Attempts at interactivity through Slido. Varied topics. Convenient
- That I could be part from the comfort of my home or on the way and still attend to necessities.
- Flexibility due to webex delivery and access to recordings to review.
- Very good and experienced presenters. very well organised, practical, useful information given
- Relevance to DGH, wide range of topics covered, highly knowledgeable speakers
- The presentations very well presented and Infomed coordinators excellent work
When will I receive my course login?
We will contact you by email one week before the course takes place with all the necessary links and joining information.
We will re-send the links the day before the course.
If you have not received an email from us please contact us at webinars@infomedltd.co.uk and we will respond ASAP.
Will I need any special software to partake?
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Can I interact with the speakers?
YES! It is very much encouraged. There will be Q&A sessions chaired by Infomed. You can type your questions in the ‘chat’ facility and they will be put to the speakers.
How I do access my catch-up & CPD certificate?
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If the catch-up is not visible in your account, please contact us and we will amend your account ASAP.
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