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Administration of rectal diazepam to neonates and infants to treat seizures prior to hospital admission - position statement

This guidance is for ambulance services which need to administer diazepam, a medicine for treating seizures, to neonates and infants. It explains how to accurately administer a 1.25mg or 2.5mg dose directly from a 5mg rectal tube. Buccal midazolam is usually preferred to rectal diazepam in the ho...
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Diagnosis of death using neurological criteria - guidance regarding not performing the Apnoea Test in the context of evidence of high cervical spinal cord injury

In 2022 a diagnosis of death using neurological criteria was made in a child which had to be reversed later when the patient had return of spontaneous albeit abnormal breathing. An expert group reviewed this case in detail. This guidance summarises the essential immediate implications arising from t...
Intensive care medicine
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Facing the Future - standards for children and young people in emergency care settings

These standards aim to ensure that urgent and emergency care is fully integrated to ensure children are seen by the right people, at the right place and in the right setting. Emergency departments that see children submitted data to our national audit, and results show how well standards are bein...
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Facing the Future - emergency care
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Global child health - our impact

Since our foundation, we at RCPCH have embraced a commitment, beyond our work in the UK, to improving child health in the world's poorest countries. We train, mentor and advise on a wide range of medical issues which affect infant and child care services worldwide. Take a look at what we do, watch v...
Child and adolescent mortality
Community child health
Emergency medicine
General paediatrics
Infectious diseases
Neonatal medicine
Tropical medicine
Primary care
Global child health
Continuing professional development
Adolescent health
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Maternity
Health inequalities
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Paediatric sub-specialty training - application guidance

In the UK Paediatric Training Programme it's possible to choose to sub-specialise during specialty training (ST5-ST7). Applications are made through a competitive recruitment process at ST4 or higher, subject to having completed core training (ST1-ST4) and enough time left to complete the required c...
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