Fluid solutions – improving the safety of intravenous fluids in children
Intravenous fluid are widely used in hospitalised children, however the evidence underpinning the choice of fluid for maintenance IV hydration has been lacking.
Developmental Medicine
POTS not POTY – Diagnosing and Managing the Adolescent with the Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
The Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome is a condition associated with orthostatic intolerance and syncope, in association with an inappropriate rise in heart rate without a fall in blood pressure.
Generation Victoria: Harnessing campus expertise to transform the health and well being of future generations of children
Generation Victoria or “Gen V” has the potential to enhance the way we all work. We want to ensure that you and your team have the opportunity to provide input – we would like your feedback and ideas.
Communication Conundrums: Avoiding mistakes and errors
This presentation will explore common challenges clinicians face including lack of previously established relationships, misaligned surgical or treatment expectations, language and cultural misunderstandings, heightened emotionality, time pressures, family-staff conflict, and fractured teamwork. Impediments to good communication and relationships will be highlighted.
Stress, Cortisol and Infant Health
Studying the links between early environmental factors and infants’ HPA axis, behavioral regulation, and health is important because in the case of negative effects, infants’ future psychological and physical development could be compromised.
Complementary therapies and paediatrics: the facts and the issues
This talk will cover how complementary therapies and therapists are regulated and used in practice in Australia, ethical dilemmas presented by their use in younger people, safety, evidence, and research.
Father Inclusiveness: Working with Fathers and their newborn Infants
Dr Kevin Nugent will present findings from a range of studies about our understanding of father’s relationships with their newborn infants. Helping parents meet “the newborn as a person” using a father and family-centred relationship based approach can set the whole family off on a very positive developmental trajectory.
Victorian Women’s Trust: Gender discrimination, racism and the health of women and children
Relationship between racism, sexism and the deleterious impacts on community well being, gender relations, and the health of mothers and children.
On being a good parent to a seriously ill child
The link between being a good parent and the health of the family will also explored, along with the use of the intervention in critical care and palliative care more widely
Maternal antibodies to rotavirus and their potential interference with live, oral rotavirus vaccines in developing countries
Vaccine strategies to overcome early infant infection, including neonatal and maternal vaccination, will be discussed with a focus on the development of the RV3 neonatal Rotavirus Vaccine being developed by the MCRI