PEM Further Resources
Colleges
College of Emergency Medicine www.collemergencymed.ac.uk
Royal College Paediatrics and Child Health www.rcpch.ac.uk
Paediatric EM Curriculum – www.collemergencymed.ac.uk/Training-Exams/Curriculum
Association of Paediatric Emergency Medicine
The Association of Paediatric Emergency Medicine – www.apem.me.uk is a professional interest group for both EM and paediatric doctors at a cost of £20 per year. There are 2 conferences: the spring conference is part of the RCPCH annual conference and the autumn conference is part of the CEM annual conference.
Courses
Advanced Paediatric Life Support courses website www.alsg.org
Useful references
- Standards for Children and Young People in Emergency Care Settings, [third edition] 2012 http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/emergencycare
- RCPCH "Facing the Future: Standards for Paediatric Services" Dec 2010 - www.rcpch.ac.uk/facingthefuture
- Davies F. Children in UK emergency departments. Arch. Dis. Child. 2008;93;194-195 DOWNLOAD
- Babl FE et al. Advanced Training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia. Annals Emerg Med 2005;45(3): 269-275 DOWNLOAD
- Davies F. Can UK emergency departments serve our children better? Emerg. Med. J. 2007;24;689 DOWNLOAD
Other useful websites
E-learning
Spotting the Sick Child www.spottingthesickchild.com
Enlightenme www.enlightenme.org
E-Learning for Health www.e-lfh.org.uk
- Common childhood exanthems
- Image interpretation: Xray: Introduction (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: Non accidental injury (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: Self evaluation (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: The ankle (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: The bones of the thorax and spine (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: The elbow (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: The foot and calcaneum (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: The hand (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: The knee, tibia and fibula (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: The pelvis and hip (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: The radius and ulna (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: The shoulder and humerus (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: The skull and facial bones (Paediatric)
- Image interpretation: Xray: The wrist (Paediatric)
- Soft tissue and bony injuries in children
- Urinary collection in children
- Safeguarding children - Level 1 - Introduction to safeguarding children and young people
- Safeguarding children – Level 2 – Recognition, response and record in secondary care
- Safeguarding children – Level 3 – Maintaining and updating competencies.
- Child with a Rash
- Paediatric Intramuscular Ketamine Dissociative Sedation in the ED
- The Irritable Hip ESR and CRP: Should we Bother?
- The use of clinical algorithms in the emergency department management of the limping child
Doctors.org.uk online modules www.doctors.org.uk
- Assessment and management of stridor in the Emergency Department
- Assessment and management of paediatric serious illness
- Assessment and management of the Breathless Child: Bronchiolitis
- Assessment of the breathless child: croup
- Assessment of the breathless child: pneumonia
- Assessment of the febrile child
- Initial management of the fitting child