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Guideline reviews

NICE Bronchiolitis guidelines 2015 – doing ‘nothing’ with confidence…

PEMgeek3RSV has settled in for the season in the UK – cue the annual ‘nebulised-saline vs salbutamol vs TLC’ debate on every ward round. Well, this year we have a new bronchiolitis guideline from NICE which should help put the old arguments to bed – and remind us how few interventions actually do any good for this condition. Time to get comfortable doing nothing…

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Paediatric DKA Guideline 2015 – What’s new?

PEMgeek3I put up the link to the revised BSPED DKA guideline recently, so I thought I’d follow up with this post to explain exactly what all the changes are. Most of them relate to fluid management and seem to be geared towards making sure we don’t end up overshooting with rehydration and putting kids in danger of cerebral oedema – seems pretty reasonable đŸ˜‰

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PEM Review 007, June 2nd – PAIN // COMMUNICATION // BRONCHIOLITIS // P.O.C.U.S // LFTs // NORMAL VALUES // EXAMINATION TECHNIQUES

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Some solid journal article analysis featured this week (alongside some random factlets and mashup-diagnoses). There will definitely be at least one thing in this pick-and-mix to interest you:

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