If you’re a paediatric or emergency medicine trainee or an emergency nurse, ENP or ACP working in ED or primary care looking to develop your skills this course is for you.

With an expert faculty and a strong focus on evidence-based care with a practical approach, this course will give you the skills you need to provide quality care for children.

We’ll be covering:

General philosophy of PEM and approach to the care of children.

Adapting to life after birth and the care of neonates.

PEM approach to acute presentations to ED, including:

• Respiratory
• Cardiac
• Neuro
• Abdo pain
• Orthopaedics
• Minor injury

Tips and tricks on how to assess and manage common injuries.

Focus on the needs of adolescents.

The approach to medical and trauma resuscitation.

Risk stratification for children.

Communication tips and tricks, including a session on children with complex needs.

Expert faculty: Andy Tagg, Ben Lawton, Henry Goldstein, Tessa Davis, Becky Platt, Dani Hall, Damian Roland, Kat Priddis, Tara George, Liz Herrieven, Anand Nitin Kanani

Come and join the DFTB team for face-to-face learning and a chance to hang out with old friends and make some new ones.

We’ll have an evening event on the first evening so join us for some fun.

Venue and timing details:

Tuesday 16th May 10am-5pm
Wednesday 17th May 9am-4pm

At The Studio in Birmingham https://thestudio.co.uk/venues/birmingham/

Before checking out below please select your dietary preferences.

0930: Registration

1000-1045: Introduction to Paediatric Emergency Medicine

• General philosophy of PEM
• Developmentally appropriate communication
• Thinking about children as part of a family unit
• When PEM is hard – child death, safeguarding, making mistakes

1045-1215 Welcome to the world: transition after birth

• Adapting to life outside
• Ins and outs – generally what does a normal baby do? Feeding, pooing, reflux
• Crying
• Jaundice
• Febrile neonate
• Collapsed neonate

LUNCH

1300-1345: How we approach illness in children

• Managing risk (and how it’s different from looking after adults)
• Safety-netting
• Fever in neonates
• Fever in children

1345-1445: Hearts and lungs

• Stridor & croup
• Wheeze
• Bronchiolitis inc PARIS and critical appraisal
• Pneumonia – including CAP-IT
• Basics of axis and paed ECGs

TEA BREAK

1515-1615: High Octane Paeds

• Paeds resus principles – approach to critically unwell kids
• Tips & tricks for airway and breathing support
• Anaphylaxis
• Sick asthmatics
• Shock
• Status epilepticus (inc ConSEPT/ECLIPSE)
• DKA

1516-1700: Adolescents

• The adolescent brain in 5 mins
• HEEADSSS
• Difficult conversations
• Behavioural de-escalation
• Thinking about gender
• Gynae & sexual health

* There may be some alterations to timings but content will be as listed above

0930: Registration

1000-1045: Introduction to Paediatric Emergency Medicine

• General philosophy of PEM
• Developmentally appropriate communication
• Thinking about children as part of a family unit
• When PEM is hard – child death, safeguarding, making mistakes

1045-1215 Welcome to the world: transition after birththe PREDICT head injury guidance

1415-1515: Minor trauma

• Wounds – top tips and which ones to worry about
• Wounds in and around the mouth
• Foreign body removal
• Minor burns

1515-1600: AMA panel

* There may be some alterations to timings but content will be as listed above