Michael D Shields

Professor of child health and consultant paediatric respiratory medicine, Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast and Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland Correspondence: MD Shields Centre for Experimental Medicine, Wellcome Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast 94 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK Email: m.shields@qub.ac.uk

How to identify and manage prolonged acute and chronic cough in pre-school children

Pharmacists should be able to select the correct management approach to children presenting with cough, and identify when symptoms warrant further investigation.…