Intensive care medicine

The paediatric intensive care physician resuscitates, stabilises, transfers and treats critically ill and injured children - find out about this sub-specialty.

Course

Difficult Vascular Access in Children (DVAC)

13 December 2024

Nottingham

This is a fun, interactive course aiming to encourage vein-preserving and time-saving techniques to improve outcomes and satisfaction for patients and carers. Feedback from previous DVAC courses has said the course has positively changed peoples’ practice. The course has previously run in Belfast an...
Area of medicine
Anaesthesia
Emergency medicine
General paediatrics
Intensive care medicine
Surgery
Care setting
Ambulance services
Tertiary care
Conditions
Asthma
Cancer
Chronic illness
Diabetes
Epilepsy
Rare disease
Stroke
Course

Neonatal cardiology including POCUS - online course

08 January 2025
This is a Basic Plus remote-delivered course that will benefit neonatal consultants & trainees, paediatricians with neonatal interest and critical care doctors and advanced nurse practitioners, and researchers who have commenced or intend to commence performing echocardiograms on neonates. The cours...
Academic medicine
Anaesthesia
Cardiovascular
Child and adolescent mortality
Emergency medicine
General paediatrics
Inherited metabolic medicine
Intensive care medicine
Neonatal medicine
Resource

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
Neonatal medicine
Palliative care
Clinical guidelines and standards
News

Protect children for a challenging winter ahead

14 July 2020
The UK must prepare now for a potential new wave of coronavirus infections this winter that could be more serious than the first, says a new report from the Academy of Medical Sciences. Responding to 'Preparing for a challenging winter', the RCPCH made the following statement on vaccinations and pro...