Every week @ESHTNHS the paediatric dept have a grand round when the consultant of the week 🐄 hand over. It’s multidisciplinary and an opportunity to get colleagues advice on complex cases and how me manage common paediatric conditions
The paediatric consultants have got over 100 years of paediatric experience between them😬. I learn something every week - often from the nurses.
The meeting is also a rich source of ideas about how we can improve paediatric services locally and nationally.
So I have decided to share what I learn each week with colleagues as a threat on twitter #wiltw
Like hospitals across the country we’ve had lots of children with RSV bronchiolitis and been working hard to implement the new @NICEComms guidance. nice.org.uk/guidance/ng9/c…
Thankfully, most children with bronchiolitis get better on their own so we’ve been trying to ⬇️ unnecessary CXR, blood gases, NG tubes, suction, nebulisers and oxygen therapy.