🔓In the UK @NHS, ethnicity, but not socio-economic status, was associated with an increased risk of postoperative complications in children having surgery for acute appendicitis.
@dramakis@rmoonesinghe
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The media focuses on white skinned people. Children with darker skin are at higher risk from health inequalities partly due to poor health messaging. #ScarletFever#BlackLivesMatter
NEW WEBINAR
'Using GIRFT’s best practice pathway and guidance to improve care for children w/ abdominal pain'
📅 5 Oct
⌚️ 1-2pm
Learn how a consensus BP pathway and clinical data (@ModelNHS) is helping to reduce variation across the specialty.
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Dr Hugo Wellesley & @RCoANews presenting an amazingly useful infographic at #APAGBI2022 👉 Children & Young people risk infographic https://t.co/ABHbsQundm
More great info👉
Information for children, parents and carers | RCoA
https://t.co/Pzc4VXh2lg
My perspective piece published today in @NEJM
Dedicated to our patients and staff at @LNWH_NHS and in loving memory of Koti Padmakar Immaneni, Lakshmi Immaneni and Dr Jagadeesh Babu Madireddi
A Pink Salwar | NEJM https://t.co/ChgD6dVGBW
In the latest of our @RCoANews blogs - Dr @cswarbrick1, National Trainee Lead for #SNAP3, describes her career ambitions, how she balances her research work alongside busy family life & the importance of bringing more women into the field.
🤹🏽https://t.co/HvPAHFotyg
I looked at London Covid admissions today & they made me cry.
We've been admitting a medium sized hospital worth of Covid patients EVERY day for 3 weeks.
KCL hospital is one of London's largest at 950 beds.
On 6th Jan we admitted 977 Covid patients.
What have we done?
"It's been one of the worst shifts of my entire life"
The BBC has been given exclusive access to a London hospital to see how doctors and nurses are coping with Covid
https://t.co/DvQsoPWFR0