Emergency
5 articles
Button Batteries: Why They're a True Emergency, and How to Prevent One
There is a small disc-shaped battery in your house right now — probably in a key fob, a remote control, a kitchen scale, a hearing aid, a light-up gre...
Recognising Sepsis in Children: When to Act Fast
Sepsis is among the most important conditions for parents to know about, not because it is common, but because the window in which action makes a deci...
Intussusception: A Serious Cause of Sudden Abdominal Pain in Infants
Intussusception is uncommon — somewhere between one and four cases per thousand babies in the UK — but it is one of the conditions paediatric A&E doct...
Infant and Child CPR: What Every Parent Should Know
This is the article you hope you never need. Most parents never will. But the gap between knowing roughly what to do in the first two minutes of a pae...
Head Injuries in Children: When to Worry and When to Wait
Children fall on their heads. Frequently, in many cases. The toddler who tumbles off the sofa, the preschooler who runs headlong into a door frame, th...