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Nasal fracture
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Children's Hospital Melbourne Internet Home About News Careers Shop Contact SharePoint Intranet Health … on the day of presentation. Delayed management is associated with significant complication Children with any …) and flattening of the nasal dorsum In young children, these findings can represent "open book" nasal fracture …
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Resuscitation: Care of the seriously unwell child
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of the seriously unwell child The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Internet Home About News Careers Shop Contact … referral to specialised paediatric/retrieval service Background This CPG is for seriously unwell children …, it does not cover trauma and seriously injured children , neonates or children in cardiorespiratory arrest …
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Altered conscious state
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The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Internet Home About News Careers Shop Contact SharePoint Intranet …, particularly for children with disability Consider child abuse in a young child presenting with altered …) or Children’s Glasgow Coma Scale is a semiquantitative measure of conscious state with altered conscious state …
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Hypernatraemia
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Children's Hospital Melbourne Internet Home About News Careers Shop Contact SharePoint Intranet Health … mmol/L per day, to avoid cerebral oedema, seizures and permanent neurological injury All children … with vascular rupture, haemorrhage, demyelination and permanent neurological injury Infants and small children …
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Foreign body ingestion
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The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Internet Home About News Careers Shop Contact SharePoint Intranet … consulting Poisons Information Centre, phone 13 11 26 Background Children of all ages may ingest a FB …, however the highest incidence is between the ages of 6 months and 3 years Children with developmental …
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Chickenpox (varicella)
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) The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Internet Home About News Careers Shop Contact Quicklinks Intranet … A great children's hospital, leading the way Health Professionals Patients and Families Departments … is usually a self-limiting disease in immunocompetent children, requiring symptomatic treatment only …
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Supraventricular Tachycardia SVT
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Tachycardia SVT The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Internet Home About News Careers Shop Contact … and childhood. Most SVT in children is due to a re-entrant mechanism and usually occurs in otherwise normally … well children Greater than a third of new onset SVT occurs in the first few weeks of life, commonly …
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Henoch-Schönlein purpura
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The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Internet Home About News Careers Shop Contact SharePoint Intranet … Henoch-Schönlein purpura Henoch-Schönlein purpura PIC Endorsed See also Fever and petechiae The acutely swollen … commonly affects children 2-8 years of age Assessment HSP is a clinical diagnosis The features include …
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Essential Oil Poisoning
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The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Internet Home About News Careers Shop Contact SharePoint Intranet … Smaller Ingestions of 2-3 mL of some essential oils have been associated with toxicity in children Signs … Children requiring assessment All patients with deliberate self-poisoning or significant accidental …
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Croup (Laryngotracheobronchitis)
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(Laryngotracheobronchitis) The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Internet Home About News Careers Shop Contact SharePoint … Children with croup should have focused examination so as not to upset them further: Observations … Increased work of breathing May have fever, but no signs of toxicity Assessment of severity Loudness …