Learning | Paediatrics and neonatal

Principles of fluid management for paediatric patients

Although the general principles of intravenous fluid therapy are similar for adults and children, there are some additional factors that should be considered when dealing with paediatric patients…

Neonatal care — pregnancy and preterm birth

This study considers the causes of preterm birth and looks at how it can be prevented or delayed.…

Neonatal care: the sick neonate

Preterm babies on neonatal intensive care units usually require respiratory and nutritional support, as well as treatment for specific complications, such as sepsis and necrotising enterocolitis.…

Strengthening the medicines safety agenda in paediatric critical care

Children and seriously ill patients are at high risk of medicines errors, so it seems obvious that safety is a particular focus in paediatric intensive care units. Here a consultant pharmacist describes her role…

Notes on prescribing and medicines management in children with epilepsy

Although epilepsy can start at any age it often begins in childhood. Emma Kirk discusses the medicines management issues surrounding antiepileptic drug therapy in children.…

How to help if a patient can’t swallow

Most pharmacists will have come across patients who either do not like to or cannot swallow tablets. They will also have encountered parents who have trouble getting their child to take his or her medicine. Swallowing difficulties is an area in which pharmacists’ unique training provides the tools…