2 Paeds in a Pod is a clinical paediatrics podcast exploring the decisions, dilemmas, and systems that shape everyday practice. While rooted in paediatric emergency medicine, the conversations range across the breadth of paediatrics — from acute presentations and diagnostic uncertainty to wider service design, professional development, and the evolving evidence base. Each episode brings structured discussion to real-world clinical questions. Alongside practical case-based reflection, we…
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2 PAEDS IN A POD Episode 88 | The RSV Jab Proves Itself Released: 19th July 2026 | Runtime: ~20 minutes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EPISODE SUMMARY This episode leads with the first national effectiveness data on the UK's maternal RSV vaccination programme — a thirty-seven-hospital study finding that vaccination in pregnancy cut RSV hospital admissions by 61% to six months of age and…
2 PAEDS IN A POD Episode 87 | Second Thoughts on Sugar Gel Released: 5th July 2026 | Runtime: ~20 minutes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EPISODE SUMMARY This episode opens with the school-age follow-up of the hPOD trial, which found that a single prophylactic dose of dextrose gel given to at-risk newborns made no difference to neurocognitive function at six to seven years and was linked…
EPISODE SUMMARY This episode leads on a problem every acute paediatric unit now lives with: the child in mental health crisis admitted to a general children's ward while waiting for specialist care. A new UK consensus study sets out sixteen practical, risk-stratified strategies that a non-specialist team can use to keep these young people safer. The second story turns to the forearm fracture, with…
2 PAEDS IN A POD Episode 85 | The Trouble With Boluses Released: 07/06/2026 | Runtime: ~20 minutes EPISODE SUMMARY This episode leads on fluid in childhood sepsis. A new multicentre cohort from Australia and New Zealand found that mortality rose with the volume of bolus fluid given in the first day, but not with the total volume of fluid — a finding set alongside the recently published PRoMPT…
2 PAEDS IN A POD Episode 84 | The Febrile Infant Lottery Released: 24/5/2026 | Runtime: ~20 minutes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EPISODE SUMMARY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This episode opens with a large London study showing that the care a febrile young infant receives depends heavily on which hospital they attend, with full adherence to national guidance achieved in only one in…
2 Paeds in a Pod Show Notes — Episode 83 Knife Crime, Febrile Infants, and What's Caught My Eye Released: May 2026 | Runtime: ~20 minutes In this episode, Ian covers what's caught his eye in the paediatric literature this fortnight. The main story looks at a landmark national review of child deaths from knife wounds in England — and what it means for those of us working in paediatric emergency and…
Clinical Question In children presenting with acute severe asthma, does intravenous aminophylline improve meaningful clinical outcomes compared to standard therapy? ⸻ Background IV aminophylline has historically been used as a second-line infusion in severe paediatric asthma. However, contemporary escalation strategies increasingly prioritise: • Oxygen • High-dose nebulised salbutamol • Systemic…
In this episode we talk to Dr Etimbuk Umana, the lead author of the FIDO study looking at the management of febrile infants in the Emergency Department. FIDO is a PERUKI sponsored study and was recently published in The Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00540-6/fulltext
2 Paeds returns with a fresh new look, new in association with team at PERUKI. In our first collaboration we talk to Dr Charlotte Sloane about the current major PERUKI project - establishing the current research priorities for the next 5 years in paediatric emergency medicine. If you want to get involved go to www.peruki.org.uk or email Charlotte at csloane04@qub.ac.uk You can also watch us on…
We talk to Dr Tom Jackson about his article in Archives of Disease in Childhood looking at the use of Dexmedetomidine as a sedative agent fro children undergoing MRI scans in a district general hospital. Is it better the NICE recommended medications? Article can be found here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2022/03/10/archdischild-2021-322734
