Midgut volvulus
The segment on Intestinal malrotation has been updated in the Abdominal disease in children page.
Paediatrics
Recurrent crying and probiotics
The Crying baby and failure to thrive page has been updated, including some information about the role of probiotics in recurrent crying.
Crying in infants
The Crying baby and failure to thrive page has been updated with additional information about the average frequency and duration of crying.
Urinary tract infection in children
The Urinary tract infection in children page has been updated, including some minor changes to the section on specimen collection.
Anti viral therapy for varicella
The Varicella/Chickenpox page has been updated, including additional information about antiviral therapy.
ENT examination in children
The Assessment of children page has been updated, including some additional information about the ENT examination in children.
Cystic fibrosis exacerbation CXR
The Cystic fibrosis page has been updated with a CXR of an infective exacerbation of CF.
Cystic fibrosis
The Cystic fibrosis page has been updated, including expanded information on pathogens responsible for exacerbations and treatment.
Autism genetics
The Autism page has been updated, including information about the risk of autism.
Paediatric head injury decision rules
The Paediatric head injury page has been updated with additional information about paediatric head injury rules following the publication of the following article. Babl FE et al. Accuracy of PECARN, CATCH, and CHALICE head injury decision rules in children: A prospective cohort study. Lancet 2017 Apr 11; [e-pub].
Yield of blood cultures in 3-36 month old infants
The Febrile child page has been updated with additional information about the extremely low yield of blood cultures in otherwise healthy 3-36 month old infants and the most common pathogens identified in the post Streptococcal vaccination era.
Paediatric and neonatal fever links added
Links between the Febrile child and Neonatal fever and sepsis pages have been added to aid navigation and topic review.
Investigation of the febrile neonate
The Febrile child page has been updated with information about the investigation and management of selected cases of older neonates with fever.
Paediatric CAP
The Paediatric pneumonia page has been updated with some information about the epidemiology of CAP in children and links to other adult CAP related pages added.
Neonatal weight changes
The Neonatal problems page has been updated with information about normal weight changes in the neonatal period.
Urine collection contamination rates in children
The Urinary tract infection in children page has been updated with information about the relative rates of contamination of the various urine collection methods.
Broselow tape
A segment on the Broselow tape system has been added to the Paediatric cardiac arrest page.
Paediatric weight calculation
The segment on paediatric weight calculation on the Paediatric cardiac arrest page has had a major revision with multiple additional methods of weight estimation added.
UTI in children
The Urinary tract infection in children page has had a few minor modifications.
Sleeping, feeding and pooing in children
The Assessment of children page has been updated with additional information about the things little babies do best (see above) following the publication of the following review article: Goldstein, H, Tagg, A, Davis, T, et al. Baby steps: Understanding normal baby behaviour. Emerg Med Australas 2016;28(2):130-2.