Fifteen-minute consultation: Severe traumatic brain injury in paediatrics.

Paediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a non-degenerative, acquired brain insult. Following a blow or penetrating trauma to the head, normal brain function is disrupted. If it occurs during the early stages of development, deficits may not immediately become apparent but unfold and evolve over time.

Cough and you'll miss it.

A 9-month-old boy presented to the emergency department with acute wheeze. He had a background of cleft lip repair at 4 months and was awaiting palatoplasty. He had mild eczema but had never had a previous wheezy episode, and was awaiting cardiology follow-up for a small patent ductus arteriosus (PDA).

How to use the videofluoroscopy swallow study in paediatric practice.

In paediatric practice feeding, eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties are present in up to 1% of children. Dysphagia is any disruption to the swallow sequence that results in compromise to the safety, efficiency or adequacy of nutritional intake. Swallowing difficulties may lead to pharyngeal aspiration, respiratory compromise or poor nutritional intake.