Paediatric Psychiatry Admissions to Critical Care.

Aims Children and adolescents may require admission to PICU to manage significant episodes of psychiatric or behavioural disorders. The primary aim was to determine the number of paediatric psychiatry patients requiring PICU admission and the indications for admission. Methods Our patient information system was used to identify patients admitted with a psychiatric presentation.

Introduction of the low risk ankle rule to a paediatric emergency department.

Introduction: Ankle injuries are a common presentation to the paediatric emergency department (PED), accounting for approximately 2% of presentations. X-rays are ordered for 85-95% of patients but only 12% of x-rays reveal a fracture. Clinical prediction rules, such as The Low Risk Ankle Rule (LRAR) exist to help clinicians safely reduce the frequency of radiography in these injuries.

Ocular dermoid in Pai Syndrome: A review.

Pai Syndrome is a rare congenital malformation syndrome of unknown cause with hypertelorism, midline cleft lip, nasal and facial polyps, ocular anomalies and the presence of distinctive lipomas adjacent to the corpus callosum. Herein, we present an infant girl with Pai Syndrome diagnosed in the first week of life with typical facial findings and associated pericallosal lipoma identified on cranial ultrasound and brain MRI. These typical features identified included median cleft of the upper lip (in her case as a forme fruste) with a cleft alveolus and a mid-anterior alveolar process congenital polyp.

A 10 km time trial running bout acutely increases the number of angiogenic T cells in the peripheral blood compartment of healthy males.

What is the central question of the study? Are CD31 angiogenic T (T ) cells preferentially mobilized in response to acute exercise? What is the main finding and its importance? Our study reveals that T cells are redistributed into the circulation in response to acute strenuous exercise, but to a lesser extent than CD31 T cells. Of the T cells mobilized, T cells expressing CXCR4 show greater redistribution compared with CXCR4 T cells. Stromal-derived factor 1-α does not appear to play a role in the redistribution of T cells expressing CXCR4.