As we shift the focus from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What’s happened to you?”, we can be better informed of a patient’s situation and can approach their care accordingly. This is known as Trauma Informed Preventative Care (TIPC). In this episode, Dr Catherine Olwenyi, paediatric anaesthetist and key area lead for the Campus Mental Health Strategy’s TIPC key area talks about the TIPC framework and how we can our patients’ responses to care.

Resources

https://mentalhealth.melbournechildrens.com/media/vqpd3ddb/tipc-policy-summary.pdf

https://www.healthcaretoolbox.org/

About 15% of children globally have high blood pressure and many may not know it until it causes problems in adult life. Early detection is therefore critical to prevent cardio-vascular disease. PhD candidate, Jonathan Glenning from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute’s Heart Research Group gives us an overview of high blood pressure in children and talks about his vision of drastically increasing the rate of childhood blood pressure monitoring.

How do you approach the common clinical presentation of constipation? In this case-based episode, we are joined by paediatric gastroenterologist, Dr Mark Oliver. Mark is given 4 typical age-related presentations, where he discusses how best to manage these.

RCH Encoporesis Fitness Training Diary:

https://www.rch.org.au/uploadedFiles/Main/Content/kidsinfo/constipation-encopresis-diary.pdf

RCH Constipation Clinical Practice Guidelines:

https://www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Constipation/

North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition (NASPGHAN):

https://naspghan.org/