Book contents
- Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine
- Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Models of Care
- Chapter 2 Logistics and Organisation
- Chapter 3 Air Retrieval
- Chapter 4 Improving Team Performance
- Chapter 5 I Like Children, but I Don’t Fancy Intubating One …
- Chapter 6 Upper Airway Obstruction
- Chapter 7 Just Bronchiolitis?
- Chapter 8 Foreign Body Aspiration
- Chapter 9 A Child with Facial Swelling
- Chapter 10 Pneumonia and Empyema
- Chapter 11 The Child with a Cough and Concerning White Cell Count
- Chapter 12 Worsening Stridor, to Intubate … or Not to Intubate
- Chapter 13 Difficult Asthma
- Chapter 14 Transfer of Child with Pulmonary Hypertension
- Chapter 15 A Blue Baby
- Chapter 16 A Shocked Blue Baby Who Won’t Improve
- Chapter 17 Under a Spell
- Chapter 18 A Decline in Function
- Chapter 19 Rash, Tachycardia and Irritability
- Chapter 20 Is the Baby’s Heart Rate Supposed to Be Slower than Mine?
- Chapter 21 A Pale Lethargic Girl
- Chapter 22 Too Fast for Comfort
- Chapter 23 Chickenpox and Other Bugs
- Chapter 24 When Amoxicillin Just Doesn’t Cover It
- Chapter 25 Tumour Lysis
- Chapter 26 Respiratory Insufficiency on Maximal Support
- Chapter 27 Cardiac Arrest
- Chapter 28 A Neurosurgical Emergency
- Chapter 29 A Fall from Height
- Chapter 30 Brain against the Clock
- Chapter 31 When Vomit Turns to Blood
- Chapter 32 Bilious Vomiting and Distended Abdomen?
- Chapter 33 What Can’t Go Down, Must Come Up
- Chapter 34 Not All Burns Can Be Seen
- Chapter 35 Drowning and Organ Donation
- Chapter 36 The Cold Shocked Child
- Chapter 37 Encephalopathy
- Chapter 38 Adolescent Psychosis and Seizures
- Chapter 39 The Collapsed Neonate
- Chapter 40 A Floppy Breathless Child
- Chapter 41 Fever in the Time of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2)
- Chapter 42 A Palliative Care Transfer Home
- Chapter 43 A Story that Just Doesn’t Add Up
- Chapter 44 Multidrug Overdose
- Chapter 45 Death Is a Possible Outcome
- Chapter 46 A Cold, Unconscious 12-Year-Old Girl
- Chapter 47 Another Collapsed Neonate
- Chapter 48 The Challenges of Chemotherapy
- Chapter 49 Diarrhoea and Vomiting
- Chapter 50 A Life-Threatening Sickle Cell Crisis
- Chapter 51 A Baby with Acute Liver Failure
- Chapter 52 Air Transport of a Critically Ill Baby
- Chapter 53 Crew Resource Management
- Chapter 54 Chest Drain Insertion
- Chapter 55 Paediatric Airway Clearance for Acute Management on Retrieval
- Chapter 56 Use of Ultrasound for Paediatric Retrieval
- Chapter 57 Vasoactive Drugs on Retrieval
- Index
Chapter 37 - Encephalopathy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2021
- Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine
- Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Models of Care
- Chapter 2 Logistics and Organisation
- Chapter 3 Air Retrieval
- Chapter 4 Improving Team Performance
- Chapter 5 I Like Children, but I Don’t Fancy Intubating One …
- Chapter 6 Upper Airway Obstruction
- Chapter 7 Just Bronchiolitis?
- Chapter 8 Foreign Body Aspiration
- Chapter 9 A Child with Facial Swelling
- Chapter 10 Pneumonia and Empyema
- Chapter 11 The Child with a Cough and Concerning White Cell Count
- Chapter 12 Worsening Stridor, to Intubate … or Not to Intubate
- Chapter 13 Difficult Asthma
- Chapter 14 Transfer of Child with Pulmonary Hypertension
- Chapter 15 A Blue Baby
- Chapter 16 A Shocked Blue Baby Who Won’t Improve
- Chapter 17 Under a Spell
- Chapter 18 A Decline in Function
- Chapter 19 Rash, Tachycardia and Irritability
- Chapter 20 Is the Baby’s Heart Rate Supposed to Be Slower than Mine?
- Chapter 21 A Pale Lethargic Girl
- Chapter 22 Too Fast for Comfort
- Chapter 23 Chickenpox and Other Bugs
- Chapter 24 When Amoxicillin Just Doesn’t Cover It
- Chapter 25 Tumour Lysis
- Chapter 26 Respiratory Insufficiency on Maximal Support
- Chapter 27 Cardiac Arrest
- Chapter 28 A Neurosurgical Emergency
- Chapter 29 A Fall from Height
- Chapter 30 Brain against the Clock
- Chapter 31 When Vomit Turns to Blood
- Chapter 32 Bilious Vomiting and Distended Abdomen?
- Chapter 33 What Can’t Go Down, Must Come Up
- Chapter 34 Not All Burns Can Be Seen
- Chapter 35 Drowning and Organ Donation
- Chapter 36 The Cold Shocked Child
- Chapter 37 Encephalopathy
- Chapter 38 Adolescent Psychosis and Seizures
- Chapter 39 The Collapsed Neonate
- Chapter 40 A Floppy Breathless Child
- Chapter 41 Fever in the Time of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2)
- Chapter 42 A Palliative Care Transfer Home
- Chapter 43 A Story that Just Doesn’t Add Up
- Chapter 44 Multidrug Overdose
- Chapter 45 Death Is a Possible Outcome
- Chapter 46 A Cold, Unconscious 12-Year-Old Girl
- Chapter 47 Another Collapsed Neonate
- Chapter 48 The Challenges of Chemotherapy
- Chapter 49 Diarrhoea and Vomiting
- Chapter 50 A Life-Threatening Sickle Cell Crisis
- Chapter 51 A Baby with Acute Liver Failure
- Chapter 52 Air Transport of a Critically Ill Baby
- Chapter 53 Crew Resource Management
- Chapter 54 Chest Drain Insertion
- Chapter 55 Paediatric Airway Clearance for Acute Management on Retrieval
- Chapter 56 Use of Ultrasound for Paediatric Retrieval
- Chapter 57 Vasoactive Drugs on Retrieval
- Index
Summary
A 9-year-old girl had been admitted to A&E with drowsiness and reduced responsiveness. She had not been eating or drinking properly for the past day or so and the parents were concerned.
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