Shared decision-making (SDM) is a collaborative approach to healthcare decision-making that involves patients and healthcare professionals working together to make decisions that are informed by the ...

3 National Lead for Clinical Skills and Simulation, Clinical Skills Managed Education Network, NHS Education for Scotland, Dundee, UK 4 College of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, Academic Business ...

A 5-year-old child presents to a paediatric clinic with their parents because of concerns about snoring, which is loud, every night and associated with respiratory pauses. This has been present for 6 ...

Correspondence to Dr Philippa Prentice, Paediatric Endocrinology, The Royal London Hospital, London E1 1FR, UK; philippa.prentice1{at}nhs.net A pubertal assessment is an important part of the clinical ...

Correspondence to Dr ES Sen, Department of Paediatric Rheumatology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS2 8BJ, UK; ethan.sen{at}doctors.org.uk Group A streptococcus ...

3 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia In the CONsent methods in childreN's emergEncy medicine ...

Mast cell tryptase (tryptase) is an enzyme produced almost exclusively by mast cells that is easy to measure using a widely available test. In this article we discuss the physiology of the mast cell ...

Heightened perception of sounds generated by the body—for example, hearing their own footsteps abnormally loudly, altered perception of own voice. Feeling dizzy on hearing loud sounds, feeling dizzy ...

Correspondence to Dr Keshavamurthy Kallambella, Department of Paediatric Neurology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Infirmary square, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK; ...

*The basis for maintaining ductal patency with prostaglandin in TGA, and not, as commonly misconceived, to permit shunting of oxygenated blood (from the PA in TGA) into the systemic circulation, which ...

Correspondence to Dr Michael Harris, Paediatric Cardiology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK; michael.harris2{at}nhs.net If you wish to reuse any ...

Acute pancreatitis is a potentially life-threatening condition that can arise from various aetiologies, including medications, infections, obstructive processes, trauma, systemic diseases or remain ...