Managing Pediatric Behavioral Disturbances

Happy July! This month for the July 2025 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast Rob covers for Andy and discussed two PEM papers with Dave - looking at the role of parental concern in predicting paediatric critical illness and one looking at clearing the paediatric C-spine with CT imaging alone. Becky and Chris finish up their two part deep dive through a guideline looking at the management of acute behavioural disturbance and we then end with New Online! If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here. After listening, complete a short quiz to have your time accredited for CPD at the RCEMLearning website!

(02:39) New in EM - Parental concern and paediatric critical illness

• Association between caregiver concern for clinical deterioration and critical illness in children presenting to hospital: a prospective cohort study (Mills et al., 2025)

(18:01) Guidelines for EM - Acute Behavioural Disturbance in Emergency Departments (Part Two)

• RCEM - Acute Behavioural Disturbance in Emergency Departments (RCEM, 2025) [PDF]

(43:37) New in EM - Paediatric C-spine clearance with CT alone

• An analysis of potential cervical spine clearance in children with computed tomography alone (Russell et al., 2025)

(01:04:51) New Online – new articles on RCEMLearning for your CPD

• Zygomatic Complex and Nasal Injury - Jonathan Whittaker
• Learning from Deaths - Liz Herrieven
• Kishan Indrakumar, Thomas Moore, Dominique Tiriant, Mayank Nagar, Preetibah Ratenavelu, Arnav Singh - Prescribing in Pregnancy - A Practical ED Guide