A nationwide survey of bereavement care for siblings provided by paediatric palliative care teams.

Background: Bereavement support is considered a core standard of care for paediatric palliative care (PPC) teams. Support for grieving siblings can present unique challenges. Developmentally appropriate care can help children navigate their grief experience.

Guideline concordant screening and monitoring of extrapyramidal symptoms in patients prescribed antipsychotic medication: a protocol for a systematic literature review and narrative synthesis.

Introduction: Given the increasing rates of antipsychotic use in multiple psychiatric conditions, greater attention to the assessment, monitoring and documentation of their side effects is warranted. While a significant degree of attention has been provided to metabolic side effect monitoring, comparatively little is known about how clinicians screen for, document and monitor the motor side effects of antipsychotics (ie, parkinsonism, akathisia, dystonia and dyskinesias, collectively 'extrapyramidal side effects', EPS). This review aims to systematically assess the literature for insights into current trends in EPS monitoring practices within various mental health settings globally.

The use of personal therapy by psychiatrists and psychiatry trainees: a systematic review.

Background: It is widely acknowledged that personal therapy positively contributes to the continued personal well-being and ongoing professional development of mental health professionals, including psychiatrists. As a result, most training bodies continue to recommend personal therapy to their trainees. Given its reported value and benefits, one might hypothesize that a high proportion of psychiatrists avail of personal therapy.

Syndromic or non-syndromic congenital ichthyosis? A case report of two brothers with ichthyosis but microphthalmia and blindness in only one brother.

We present the cases of two brothers with ichthyosis, born to consanguineous parents, with the eldest having extracutaneous manifestations in the form of microphthalmia and corneal opacities causing complete blindness. Initially, we were faced with the question of whether the phenotype in this family was due to the effects of a single pleiotropic, presumably autosomal recessive gene manifesting as a syndromic form of ichthyosis, or whether there were multiple causal genes, and the ichthyosis was non-syndromic. Ultimately, clinical follow-up of the family, combined with research-based exome sequencing established a diagnosis of NIPAL4 autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis in both brothers, but the ocular abnormalities causing blindness in the older brother were due to coexisting autosomal recessively inherited loss of function mutations in peroxidasin, the latter finding also seen in a sister unaffected by ichthyosis.