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 Thursday 8th: Paediatrics

Our approach to choosing the content for todays topic was to try and find short presentations on a broad range of subjects to ensure that there is something for everyone. If during your browsing you come across points of interest which you feel would benefit conference delegates please  forward the links onto us at info@emsconferences.com.au.   

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Big Trouble, Little People: Paeds Retrieval

Fran Lockie examines our approach to critically ill children and the importance of sticking with our tried and tested formulae.

Relax…… Children are just little adults

Just to throw a spanner in the works: Simon Carley challenges the well known dogma of “Children are not little adults” in a talk which is likely to have you questioning your approach to future paediatric patients.

Fluids and Kids: What Now?

Shock is a common complication of severe febrile illness, and worldwide aggressive correction with intravenous bolus therapy is recommended as the initial treatment. Nevertheless, the evidence supporting this approach remains weak. This Podcast (with accompanying slides) looks at the only controlled trial of fluid resuscitation, Fluid Expansion as Supportive Therapy (FEAST), involving 3141 African children with severe febrile illness, including large groups with sepsis and malaria, called into question aggressive fluid resuscitation, demonstrating excess mortality in both bolus arms (albumin and saline) compared to no-bolus control, relative risk of morality in bolus versus control was 1.45 (1.13-1.86, p=0.003).

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Neonatal Resuscitation 

"For most of us resuscitating a small baby, lighter than a frozen chicken, can fill us with dread. In this talk A/Prof Helen Liley, a consultant neonatologist at the Mater Mothers hospital, takes some of the knowledge gained from being a key figure in the ILCOR’s neonatal task force and translates it into practical advice." 

 

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Additional Resources

The above links have some great material which we recommend you review for the e-learning discussion session. If you are hungry for more information the below link will take you to an excellent resource page from the Intensive Care Network which hosts a fantastic catalogue of resources. 

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