Pre-learning: Critically Ill Child Workshop 2025
Prelearning: Critically Ill Child Workshop 2025
Paediatric Emergencies: Assessment and Acute Management
Introduction
It is easy to miss the seriously ill child who presents with subtle clinical findings or to feel uncomfortable when required to manage the seriously ill child. At the workshop we will explore the signs of paediatric serious illness and the emergency management of the child fever/sepsis, surgical emergency, severe dehydration/shock, status epilepticus, trauma and severe respiratory distress.
The eLearning modules for the Critically Ill Child Workshop introduce many of the important principles relating to recognising and treating the seriously ill child, and provide the foundation for the clinical scenarios discussed in the workshop.
The modules are designed to be completed prior to attending the workshop. You should allow 60 - 90 mins to complete each of the modules.
The prelearning explores the following topics:
1. Red Flags for Serious Illness
2. Approach to the Seriously Ill Child
3. Acute Respiratory Distress and Life Threatening Asthma
4. Paediatric Vomiting and Dehydration
Pre-learning: Critically Ill Child Workshop 2024
Pre-Learning: Critically Ill Child Workshop
The young child with acute illness presents major challenges to the clinician: the history may be incomplete, the examination limited, and the clinical features of serious disease overlooked. In this topic, we consider the approach to the critically ill child and explore the clues on history and examination that indicate a risk for serious disease.