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  • A

    • Acquired brain injury rehabilitation
    • Acute genital pain
    • Acute otitis media (middle ear infection)
    • Adenoidectomy
    • Allergy
    • Amblyopia (lazy eye)
    • Amikacin for inhalation
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    • Appendicectomy
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    • Asthma
    • Auditory brainstem response test
    • Autoimmune neutropenia (AIN) of early childhood

    B

    • Bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis)
    • Blepharitis
    • Blocked tear ducts
    • Bone marrow test
    • Bottle feeding
    • Breastfeeding
    • Brief Resolved Unexplained Event (BRUE)
    • Bronchiectasis (non-cystic fibrosis)
    • Bronchiolitis
    • Buckle fractures

    C

    • Cannabidiol
    • Carbapenam resistant pseudonomas
    • Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE)
    • Cardiac (heart) - information, symptoms and treatment
    • Ceftazidime
    • Cellulitis
    • Chalazion
    • Circumcision
    • Cleft lip
    • Cleft palate
    • Clonidine
    • Clostridium difficile
    • Cochlear implant surgery
    • Coeliac disease
    • Colistin nebuliser solution
    • Collarbone fractures
    • Collecting a clean urine sample
    • Constipation
    • Corneal abrasions
    • Cough in children
    • COVID-19
    • Craniosynostosis
    • Craniotomy
    • Croup
    • Crutches
    • CT scan
    • Cyclophosphamide infusion
    • Cystoscopy

    D

    • Developmental language disorder
    • Diabetes (Type 1)
    • Diabetes (Type 2)
    • Diabetic ketoacidosis
    • Diabetic retinopathy
    • Domperidone
    • Dysphagia (swallowing difficulties)

    E

    • Ear infection
    • Eczema
    • EEGs for children with challenging behaviour or ASD
    • Epidermolysis bullosa
    • Epilepsy
    • Extended spectrum beta lactamase
    • External ventricular drain
    • Eye drop instructions

    F

    • Faecal incontinence
    • Fasting before surgery
    • Febrile convulsions
    • Femoral varising derotation osteotomy
    • Fever
    • Fibrous dysplasia
    • First aid for seizures
    • Flexible bronchoscopy
    • Flu (influenza)

    G

    • Gabapentin
    • Gastroenteritis
    • Grommets

    H

    • Haemangiomas
    • Haemophilia
    • Head injury
    • Head lice
    • Headaches and migraines
    • Healthy sleep
    • Hearing aids and cochlear implants
    • Helping your child live with a rheumatic condition
    • Henoch-Schönlein purpura
    • Hepatitis C
    • How to use crutches
    • HSV stomatitis
    • Hyphema
    • Hypospadias

    I

    • Immune thrombocytopenia
    • Infant mild brain injury (concussion)
    • Inflammatory bowel disease medicine
    • Influenza (flu)
    • Inguinal hernia
    • Intranasal dexmedetomidine sedation

    J

    • Jaundice in newborns
    • Joint injections
    • Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
    • Juvenile idiopathic arthritis flare-ups

    K

    • Ketamine sedation
    • Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome

    L

    • Limb and cast care
    • Limping

    M

    • Medicines
    • Meningitis
    • Mesenteric adenitis
    • Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
    • Methotrexate (low dose)
    • Methotrexate infusions
    • Middle ear infection (acute otitis media)
    • Migraines and headaches
    • MRI

    N

    • Nitrous oxide in the emergency department
    • Norovirus
    • Nosebleed (epistaxis)

    O

    • Obstructive sleep apnoea in children with Down syndrome
    • Osteotomy
    • Oxycodone

    P

    • Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome
    • Pain relief at home
    • Parechovirus
    • PET-CT scan
    • Plagiocephaly
    • Pre-school wheeze
    • Preparing for surgery (fasting)
    • Preventing pressure injuries
    • Puffers and spacers
    • Pulled elbow
    • Pyloric stenosis

    R

    • Reflux
    • Respiratory syncytial virus
    • Retinoblastoma
    • Rheumatic conditions – how to help your child
    • Rheumatic diseases in children
    • Rhizotomy

    S

    • Scarlet fever
    • Sclerotherapy
    • Seizures and first aid
    • Selective dorsal rhizotomy
    • Sepsis
    • Shunt surgery
    • Skin grafting and debridement
    • Sleep apnoea
    • Sleep apnoea in children with Down syndrome
    • Sleeping issues in babies and toddlers with Down syndrome
    • Soft tissue injury (sprain)
    • Spina bifida - information, symptoms and treatment
    • Spinal cord detethering
    • Strabismus
    • Swallowing difficulty (dysphagia) in children

    T

    • Testicular torsion
    • Thrush in babies
    • Tongue-tie in babies
    • Tonsillectomy
    • Tonsillitis
    • Tracheostomy tubes
    • Type 1 diabetes
    • Type 2 diabetes

    U

    • Ultrasound
    • Umbilical cord and stump belly button care
    • Umbilical cord stump and belly button
    • Umbilical granuloma
    • Undescended testes and orchidopexy
    • Urinary tract infection
    • Urine sample

    V

    • Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus
    • Vascular anomalies
    • Videofluoroscopic swallow study
    • Viral illness
    • Vocal cord palsy

    W

    • Warfarin
    • Whooping cough (Bordetella pertussis)
    • Wound care after glue or stitches
    • Wound care after surgery

    X

    • X-ray

Last updated: December 2024

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