Paediatric Critical Illness

The intermediate curriculum asks for knowledge on 'the critically ill child with e.g. sepsis, trauma, convulsions, diabetic emergencies...and their management'.

The most frequently occurring CRQ's from this section have been on meningitis (2018, 2022), although anecdotally SBAs on upper airway obstruction are also common.

• Burns
• Meningitis
• Neonatal resuscitation
• Paediatric cardiac arrest
• Paediatric tracheostomies
• Paediatric trauma
• Sepsis
• Status epilepticus
• Upper airway obstruction


• Paediatric transfers (from the Transfer Medicine Section)