Podcasts about royal children's hospital

We are in conversation with Dr Anthea Rhodes, a practising developmental and behavioural paediatrician at The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne. Anthea is the Director of the Royal Children's Hospital National Child Health Poll. She has a clinical interest in the health needs of the vulnerable child, and has speciality training in immigrant health and paediatric forensic medicine. "As Director of the RCH National Child Health Poll, Dr Rhodes seeks to put the voice of Australian families and communities at the heart of conversation about child and adolescent health, and ultimately inform national discourse, health priorities and policy formulation". Anthea discusses the most recent findings from the poll which demonstrate how the lockdowns and Covid-19 restrictions across Australian states and territories are affecting children and families. The impacts are diverse and multi-faceted including affects on health, diet, exercise, loneliness and isolation, financial stressors, sleep patterns, IT and internet use and the mental health and well-being of children and families.

Tash is a Paediatric Registrar at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. Like many, Tash found the long hours working in stressful and unsupported roles as a junior doctor difficult. At breaking point, Tash decided to take a year off to locum and re-discover her passion for medicine. Listen to her exceptional story here.

In this episode, Pranai Buddhdev (founder/host of #ThePaedipodsCast) sits with Leo Donnan from the Royal Children's Hospital from Melbourne, Australia. Leo Donnan is a paediatric and adult limb reconstruction surgeon, who has previously served as Director of Orthopaedics at RCH and has a world renowned limb reconstruction fellowship. IN this episode we talk about his early career, the importance of travelling fellowships, his role in research, education, where he feels the specialty is heading in the future and his suggestions of how to maintain a good work-life balance. Links as below:  Orthopaedic education: https://www.rchortho.com RCH Paediatric Fracture Guidelines: https://www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/fractures/ Leo Donnan Personal Website: https://leodonnan.com.au

Beyond The Bump is a podcast, brought to you by Jayde Couldwell and Sophie Pearce! A podcast targeted at mums, just like you! A place to have real conversations with honest and authentic people. In our ninth episode of Beyond The Bump, Jayde and Sophie talk to emergency professionals about what to do when your child is unwell. Gab and Zoe are an ED doctor and nurse and founders of First Steps, a paediatric first aid and CPR training course. We chat about how to care for your sick child at home, basic life support, when to take them to the emergency department, what to expect in the emergency department and so much more! This episode of Beyond The Bump is sponsored by ShopBack. ShopBack is a website and app that helps you earn up to 30% cash back on online shopping that you do! There's over 900 online stores involved including The Iconic, Booking.com, Myer, Woolworths Online and Deliveroo! From these sites you can shop as normal then literally get money back into your account depending on the percentage deal they have going at the time! There is an exclusive $10 welcome bonus for all Beyond the Bump listeners, if you head to shopback.com.au/BTB! Goodies mentioned in this episode: First Steps Community paediatric and infant first aid courses: follow them on instagram @firststepscommunity or visit their website firststepscommunity.comKids health app by the Royal Children's Hospital: here Health advice over the phone - QLD 13HEALTH (13 43 25 84) - Australia wide (except QLD) 1800 022 222Poisons information hotline: 13 11 26Follow us on instagram at @beyondthebump.podcast to stay up to date with behind the scenes and future episodes.

A medical team at the Royal Children's Hospital successfully separated conjoined Bhutanese twins, Nima and Dawa. The 14-month-old girls and their mother were brought to Australia in October 2018, courtesy of the charity organisation Children First Foundation, to undergo the surgery led by Dr Joe Crameri, Head of Paediatric Surgery at the RCH. He explains the details of the successful operation and the ongoing post-surgical care for the resilient and much-loved twins.

Dr Michelle Telfer paints a picture of what it's like to work in the Gender Service at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne and how practitioners can support children who identify as trans or gender non-conforming.

This week we speak with cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Johann Brink about a recent work he co-authored from the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia about the team's experience with shunt malfunctions. Are there factors that are associated with shunt failure in this sometimes fragile patient group? Survival to Fontan in most series is roughly 70% - what, if anything, can 'move the needle' to higher levels of survival in this patient population? Dr. Brink offers some interesting and important insights this week. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.03.126.

Australians are taking more and more antibiotics, which has led to some bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics. In fact, two-thirds of babies of babies have already received antibiotics by the time they are 12 months old. That's according to Dr Penelope Bryant, a Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Medical Lead at The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. And while Penelope says there are definitely times that antibiotics are required and life-saving, we need to be more careful about how often they are prescribed to babies. Penelope talks about the risks of antibiotic use in young babies, and how parents can make sure they feel empowered in their decisions with medical practitioners. 

The health of children in kinship care is of primary concern. Resources must continually be put into finding ways to improve health care outcomes for children in out of home care. In this podcast KCV speaks with Dr Karen McLean pediatrician with the Pathway to Good Health Clinic, the Sleep Disorders Clinic, the Royal Children's Hospital, the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the Department of Pediatrics with the University of Melbourne.

Putting a kid into a harness seat every time you go somewhere can be really annoying. Necessary, but annoying. It seems that many parents are rushing their children out of booster seats before it's safe to do so. Recent research from the National Child Health Poll indicates that many parents don't understand the safest way to seat their children in a car. Director of the poll, Dr Anthea Rhodes from the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne runs through when it's safest for a child to be out of a booster seat, and when it's okay to turn a child's seat forward facing. 

Mel-Practice, Nurse Epi-Pen and Doctor G-spot ran the ship of this week's pre-Winter vessel on Radiotherapy. Nurse Sonya Ellia visited the Radiotherapy team today to delve into her expertise in the world of vaccinations. Working at the Royal Children's Hospital she impart all of her vaccination and virus wisdom. Professor Peter Mitchell also visited the studio to explore his realm of stroke and brain clots. In the news, G-spot discussed insomnia and how it can be caused by an inability to process emotions. Epi-Pen also went more in depth on strokes and how drugs could cause a new form of stroke.

Trainer, mum and wife to the Southern Hemisphere's most successful reinsman, Alison Alford talks to Paul Campbell about the many harness racing hats she wears in the latest episode of Tooth Be Told. On the eve of the Good Friday Appeal the pair's chat includes the vital service provided by the Royal Children's Hospital.

Welcome back to another episode of the New Grad Radio Podcast. It is with my pleasure that I introduce my first special guest to be on the podcast: Hannah Cotterell. After completing our university together, Hannah was accepted into a prestigious graduate program into the Emergency Department at one of Australia's leading children's hospitals. In the episode today, Hannah elaborates on her own nursing journey, including a job she held whilst at university which has helped her immensely; an exciting two-week placement in Cambodia; as well as some first-hand experiences and advice that I think is absolute gold for anyone to hear. Whether you are a student nurse with an upcoming paediatric placement; a student, or registered nurse considering a transition into paediatric nursing; or simply after a little more information on the career of a nurse working in as a paediatric nurse in a busy Emergency Department, I believe you will have many take-aways from Hannah's words of wisdom. As always, thank you very much for listening, and if you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate to send a message through on the Facebook page: search "New Grad Radio Podcast". This was my first attempt at interviewing, with there being a few clunky sections; but just like nursing, with a positive attitude, and persistence, it’ll only get better! Thanks to Hannah for her patience. Show Notes: Here is the link to the Royal Children's Hospital website that Hannah mentioned: - https://www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/about_rch_cpgs/welcome_to_the_clinical_practice_guidelines/ There are also some apps you can download on IOS and Android devices: search 'RCH Clinical Guidelines', as well as ‘Emergency Nurse Practitioner’.

A medical team at the Royal Children's Hospital was in the media spotlight recently as they prepared to separate conjoined Bhutanese twins, Nima and Dawa. The 14-month-old girls and their mother were brought to Australia in October, courtesy of the charity organisation Children First Foundation, to undergo the surgery led by Dr Joe Crameri, Head of Paediatric Surgery at the RCH. He explains the details of the successful operation and the ongoing post-surgical care for the resilient and much-loved twins.

Nurse Epipen, Doctor Mal-Practice and Doctor G-Spot were joined by an excellent array of guests on this week of Radiotherapy. Doctor Mick Creedy and Harry Brown from the Royal Children's Hospital, discussed ChIPS (Chronic Illness Peer Support) with the doctors and how it works. The achiever of a long list of credentials, Professor Felicity Baker discussed the importance of musical therapy on patience and how it can dictate moods and better recovery.

What are some practical strategies teachers could use in the classroom to assist students with ADHD? That’s just one of the questions we ask Dr Emma Sciberras in this episode of The Research Files. Dr Sciberras is a Senior Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist from the School of Psychology at Deakin University. Since 2009, she’s been working on the Children’s Attention Project, a research study conducted by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute at The Royal Children's Hospital. The project explores the long-term effects that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (or ADHD) has on children's behaviour, learning and day-to-day living, and also on their parents' wellbeing.

The 100th Jellybean. I'm proud to introduce to you Miss Claire Kerr. Paediatric Intensive Care Nurse at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. This one is about a change of heart. Claire is from Adelaide and had to go to Melbourne to achieve what she wanted/needed. And thus a short clip from the legendary Adelaide band "The Master's Apprentices" seemed appropriate for the shared story and that is before you get to the lyrics in the chorus which you can hear at the end of the interview.

This week we review a very recent work on long term (14 years!) outcomes of children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Australia and speak with its author, Professor Robert Weintraub of Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. Dr. Weintraub explains the data in his work for us and what he considers to be important risk factors for poor outcomes. He also shares some thoughts on how he thinks about who might be a candidate for primary ICD prophylaxis in the young HCM population.

Dr Carolyn Lam: Welcome to Circulation on the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. I'm Dr Carolyn Lam, associate editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. Did you know that despite being one of the wealthiest nations in the world, the United States population has a shorter life expectancy compared to almost all other high-income countries in the world? Well, stay tuned to learn what Americans could do to narrow the life expectancy gap between the United States and other industrialized nations. Coming right up after these summaries.                                 Are microRNAs involved in nitrate tolerance? Well, the first original paper this week provides some answers. This is from co-corresponding authors Dr Bai and Zhang from Central South University in Changsha, China. Nitrate tolerance develops when there's dysfunction of the prostaglandin I2 synthase and prostaglandin I2 deficiency. These authors hypothesize that prostaglandin I2 synthase gene expression may be regulated by a microRNA-dependent mechanism in endothelial cells. They induce nitrovasodilator resistance by nitroglycerin infusion in Apoe deficient mice and studied endothelial function in both the mouse models as well as human umbilical vein endothelial cells. They found that nitric oxide donors induced atopic expression of microRNA 199a/b in endothelial cells, which was required for the nitrovasodilator resistance via repression of prostaglandin I2 synthase gene expression. Targeting this axis effectively improved nitrate tolerance. Thus, the atopic expression of microRNA 199 in endothelial cells induced by nitric oxide may explain prostaglandin I2 synthase deficiency in the progression of nitric tolerance. Thus, microRNA 199a/b may be a novel target for the treatment of nitric tolerance.                                 What are the long-term outcomes of childhood left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy? Well, the next paper presents results from the National Population-Based Study in Australia. First author, Dr Shi, corresponding author, Dr Weintraub, from Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, looked at the National Australian Childhood Cardiomyopathy Study, which includes all children in Australia with primary cardiomyopathy diagnosed at less than 10 years of age between 1987 and 1996. Outcomes for left ventricular noncompaction patients with a dilated phenotype will compare to those with a dilated cardiomyopathy.                                 There were 29 patients with left ventricular noncompaction with a mean annual incidence of newly diagnosed cases of 0.11 per hundredth thousand at risks persons.                                 Congestive heart failure was initial symptom in 83%, and 93% had a dilated phenotype. The median age at diagnosis was 0.3 years of age. Freedom from death or transplantation was 48% at 10 years after diagnosis, and 45% at 15 years. Using propensity score inverse probability of treatment-weighted Cox regression, the authors found evidence that left ventricular noncompaction with a dilated phenotype was associated with a more than two-fold greater risk of death or transplantation.                                 The next paper reports the first application of multiomics and network medicine to calcific aortic valve disease. Co-first authors Dr Schlotter and Halu, corresponding author Dr Aikawa from Brigham and Woman's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and their colleagues examined 25 human stenotic aortic valves obtained from valve replacement surgeries. They used multiple modalities, including transcriptomics and global unlabeled and label-based tandem-mass-tagged proteomics.                                 Segmentation of valves into disease stage–specific samples was guided by near-infrared molecular imaging. Anatomic-layer specificity was facilitated by laser capture microdissection. Side-specific cell cultures was subjected to multiple calcifying stimuli, and the calcification potential and basil or stimulated proteomics were evaluated. Furthermore, molecular interaction networks were built, and their central proteins and disease associations were identified.                                 The authors found that global transcriptional and protein expression signatures differed between the nondiseased, fibrotic, and calcific stages of calcific aortic valve disease. Anatomical aortic valve microlayers exhibited unique proteome profiles that were maintained throughout disease progression and identified glial fibrillary acidic protein as a specific marker of valvula interstitial cells from the spongiosa layer. In vitro, fibrosa-derived valvular interstitial cells demonstrated greater calcification potential than those from the ventricularis. Analysis of protein-protein interaction networks further found a significant closeness to multiple inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. This study is significant because it is the first application of spatially and temporarily resolved multiomics and network systems biology strategy to identify molecular regulatory networks in calcific aortic valve disease. It provides network medicine–based rational for putative utility of antifibrotic and anti-inflammatory therapies in the treatment of calcific aortic valve disease. It also sets a roadmap for the multiomic study of complex cardiovascular diseases.                                 The final paper tackles the controversy of antibiotic prophylaxis for the prevention of infective endocarditis during invasive dental procedures. This is from a population-based study in Taiwan. First author, Dr Chen, corresponding author, Dr Tu from Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine College of Public Health in National Taiwan University aimed to estimate the association between invasive dental treatments and infective endocarditis using the health insurance database in Taiwan.                                 They chose 2 case-only study designs. First a case-crossover, and second, self-controlled case series. Both designs used within-subject comparisons such that confounding factors were implicitly adjusted for. They found that invasive dental treatments did not appear to be associated with a larger risk of infective endocarditis in the short period following invasive dental treatment. Results were consistent from both study designs. The authors also did not find any association between invasive dental treatments and infective endocarditis even among the high-risk patients, such as those with a history of rheumatic disease or valve replacement.                                 In summary, these authors found no evidence to support antibiotic prophylaxis for the prevention of infective endocarditis before invasive dental treatments in the Taiwanese population. Whether antibiotic prophylaxis is necessary in other populations requires further study.                                 Alright, so that wraps it up for our summaries, now for our feature discussion.                                 The United States is one of the wealthiest nations worldwide, but Americans have a shorter life expectancy compared with almost all other high-income countries. In fact, the US ranks only 31st in the world for life expectancy at birth in 2015. What are the factors that contribute to premature mortality and life expectancy in the US? Well, today's feature paper gives us some answers. And I'm just delighted to have with us the corresponding author, Dr Frank Hu from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as well as our dear associate editor, Dr Jarett Berry, from UT Southwestern.                                 Frank, could you begin by telling us a bit more about the inspiration for looking at this, what you did, and what you found? Dr Frank Hu:       So, we look at the impact of healthy lifestyle habits, life expectancy in the US as a nation. As you just mentioned, Americans have a shorter life expectancy compared with almost all other high-income countries, so in this study we wanted to estimate what kind of impact of lifestyle factors have, premeasured that and life expectancy in the US population.                                 What we did is to combine three datasets. One is our large cohort, Nurses’ Health Study, and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. We use this large cohort to estimate the relationships between lifestyle habits and mortality. And the second data set we use is to get age and sex to specific mortality rates in the US as a nation. This is the CDC WONDER dataset. And the third dataset we used is the NHANES dataset, this is the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We used this dataset to get the prevalence of healthy lifestyle factors in the general US as a nation. So, we used the three datasets to create age-specific, sex-specific life tables and estimated life expectancies.                                 At age 50, according to the number of healthy lifestyle habits that people would follow, what we found is that following several lifestyle factors can make a huge difference in life expectancies.                                 Here we talk about five basic lifestyle factors: not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, exercise regularly—at least a half hour per day—and eating a healthy diet, and not drinking too much alcohol. No more than one drink per day for a woman, no more than two drinks per day for men. What we found is that, compared with people who did not adapt any of those low-risk habits, we estimated that the life expectancy at age 50 was 29 years for woman and about 26 years for men. But for people who adapted all five healthy lifestyle habits, life expectancy at age 50 was 43 years for women and 38 years for men. So, in other words, a woman who maintains all 5 healthy habits gained, on average, 14 years of life, and the men who did so gained 12 years life compared with those who didn't maintain healthy lifestyle habits. So I think this is a very important public health message. It means that following several bases of healthy factors can add substantial amount of life expectancy to the US population, and this could help to reduce the gap in life expectancy between the US population and other developed countries. Dr Carolyn Lam: Thank you, Frank. You know that is such an important public health message that I am going to repeat it. Adhering to five lifestyle risk factors mainly, don't smoke, maintain a healthy weight, have regular physical activity, maintain a healthy diet, and have moderate alcohol consumption, AND a woman could increase her life expectancy at age 50 by 14 years and a man could do that by 12 years more. That is absolutely amazing.                                 Okay so Frank, actually, I do have a question though. These are remarkable datasets obviously, but they also go back to the 1980s. So did you see any chief risk factor that may have played more predominant apart with time? Dr Frank Hu:       We didn't specifically look at the changes in risk factors life expectancy, but among the five risk factors, not smoking is certainly the most important factor in terms of improving life expectancy. The good news is that prevalent smoking in the US has decreased substantially in the past several decades. However, the prevalence of other risk factors has actually increased. For example, the prevalence of obesity has increased two- or three-fold and the prevalence of regular exercise remained at a very low level, and also the diet quality in the US population is relatively poor. So, the combination of those risk factors have contributed to relatively low life expectancies in the US population. Dr Carolyn Lam: Right. Obesity, not smoking, I hear you. I just wanted to point out to all the listeners too, you have to take a look at Figure 1 of this beautiful paper, it’s just so beautifully illustrated in it.                                 Jarett, you helped to manage and bring this paper through. What are your thoughts? Dr Jarett Berry: Yeah, I just want to echo your comments, Carolyn, and Dr Hu. This is a fabulous paper, and a very important contribution characterizing these important associations in the US population. And I think, and the discussion thus far has been really helpful in putting all of this into context.                                 I do want to ask you, just a couple of, I guess more, philosophical questions about some of the observations in the paper. And one of them is the prevalence of the low-risk factor, those with a large number of low-risk factors, for example, in both the Nurses Health and in the Health Professional Follow-Up Study, you observed that the presence of five lifestyle factors was less than 2%. And it's interesting you see this in a large number of datasets and I think important, maybe for our readers to realize that there's two sides to the coin here.                                 One, the benefit of these low risk factors, but also, unfortunately, the low prevalence of these collections of healthy lifestyle factors that you've outlined.                                 Could you comment a little bit on that, and what that means, both maybe from a scientific point of view of perhaps, more importantly, from a public health stand point? Dr Frank Hu:       Yeah and this is very important observation and the number of people or the percentage of people who maintained all the five low-risk lifestyle habits is quite low in our cohort, even the nurses and health professionals, they are more health conscience in the general population. They have much better access to health care and also better access to healthy foods and have physical activity facilities. Despite all this potential advantages, and these more percentage of people who are able to maintain all five lifestyle risk factors.                                 On the other hand, about 10 to 15% of our participants did not adopt any of the five low-risk lifestyle habits. So it means that we still have a lot of work to do in terms of improving the lifestyle habits that we discussed earlier. The five risk lifestyle factors and in the general population, I think the percentage of people who adapt all the five lifestyle factors, probably even lower than 2%. And so that means that we have a huge public health challenge in front of us and have to improving the five lifestyle risk factors. One of the most important public health challenges as mentioned earlier is obesity because currently we have two-third of the US population is overweight or obese. So that's something I think is major public health challenges for us. Dr Jarett Berry: Right, and it’s interesting looking at your Table 1, and those individuals who have all five low risk factors. It's interesting that the prevalence of physical activity was incredibly high. I have a great interest of impact of exercise on these types of outcomes and it's interesting that in both cohorts, six or seven hours a week of exercise was the mean physical activity level in those with five risk factors. So, it's interesting and in some ways, these lifestyle factors, they do tend to congregate or covary with one another such that those individuals who do spend that kind of time, albeit unfortunately more rare than we would like to see it, the increase in physical activity does tend to have a positive impact, not only on the weight, but also on healthy lifestyle or healthy diet choices. Dr Frank Hu:       Right, yeah this is a very good observation that what I do want to point out that our definition of regular exercise is pretty cerebral to put it in terms of the definition. So we define moderate to vigorous physical activity in our cohorts. We included not just running, playing sports, but it was also walking in a moderate intensity. So it means that people can incorporate physical activity into their daily life. For example, by walking from a train station and with climbing stairs in their workplace and so on and so forth. So here physical activity means both recreational activity and also moderate intensity activities such as graceful walking. Dr Carolyn Lam: Frank, I think both of us listening are breathing a sigh of relief there and just for the listeners to understand too. These factors were dichotomized, right, and so you were describing the type of exercise and actually you used a three and a half hour per week limit to define healthy or not.                                 Similarly, just for reference the alcohol intake was 5 to 15g a day for women, or 5 to 30g a day for men. And normal weight was defined as a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9. I'm just thinking that if I were listening I'd want to know those cutoffs.                                 Now, can I ask a follow-up question, therefore to this dichotomy. As far as I understand you counted each of these risk factors equally, but did you try to do a weighted analysis by any chance? Did any one of them play a bigger role than others? Dr Frank Hu:       That's an interesting mathematical question because it’s very difficult to assign different weights to different risk factors because we look at, not just total mortality but also cardiovascular mortality and cancer mortality. So, you would have to use different weights for different causes of mortality. That would make the analysis much more complicated. But we did calculate a different type of score using five categories of each risk factor and then using that score, we were able to rank people in more categories so for that score the range is from five to 25, and we categorized people into quintiles or even more categories and the contrast in life expectancy between the lowest and the highest group is even greater. So, it means that, the higher number of healthy lifestyle factors, the greater life expectancy. Also, with each category, each lifestyle factors a high degree of adherence to that factor, the greater health benefit people will get. So, I think it's really accumulative fact of multiple risk factors and also the degree of adherence to each of the factors. Dr Carolyn Lam: Again, such an important public health message.                                 Jarett, how do you think this is going to be received by the public at large? Dr Jarett Berry: Very well received. I mean this is a very important observation demonstrating some of these disconcerting observations about life expectancy in the United States and as we think about strategies for improving the public health, I think Dr Hu's group has really helped us outline, very clearly, what other bodies such as the American Heart Association have been saying for years now, that lifestyle factors are so important in influencing cardiovascular risk, and in this case, life expectancy. It really does put, once again, the right amount of emphasis on the role these lifestyle factors of improving the public health. I think it’s going to be very well received and really helpful and important observation that all of us need to hear. Dr Carolyn Lam: Listeners, don't forget this important message and tell your friends about it, please.                                 Thanks for joining us today, don't forget to join us again next week.  

In this video, Dr. Warwick Butt, Director of the ICU at The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia and Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, outlines his preferred strategy for treating a 9-month-old patient with respiratory failure, and a 9-month-old in refractory shock (using ECMO).  Please visit: http://www.openpediatrics.orgOPENPediatrics™ is an interactive digital learning platform for healthcare clinicians sponsored by Boston Children’s Hospital and in collaboration with the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. It is designed to promote the exchange of knowledge between healthcare providers around the world caring for critically ill children in all resource settings. The content includes internationally recognized experts teaching the full range of topics on the care of critically ill children. All content is peer-reviewed and open access-and thus at no expense to the user. For further information on how to enroll, please email: openpediatrics@childrens.harvard.edu

In this episode, physiotherapist Jo Butchart discusses preliminary research into the use of robots in paediatric rehabilitation.Jo Butchart is Senior Physiotherapist with the Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Service. This episode was recorded at the Reddihough Symposium, held at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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In this edition, we hear about current and emerging research in paediatric rehabilitation from a selection of practitioners with the Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Service. WWe hear in this podcast from Associate Professor Alicia Spittle of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the University of Melbourne, and Sue Greaves, the Acting Manager of Occupational Therapy at the Royal Children's Hospital. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this edition, we hear a conversation about the health impacts of sleep on young people with cerebral palsy. We hear from:Giuliana Antolovich; paediatrician at the Royal Children's HospitalSacha Petersen; Clinical Nurse Consultant at the Royal Children's Hospital and PhD candidateSue McCabe; Occupational Therapist and PhD candidate. Links referred to in the episode:Sue McCabe's slidesSue McCabe's paper See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Restaurant Song by Royal Children's Hospital

The Perfect Hat by Royal Children's Hospital

Wild And Free by Royal Children's Hospital

Times Table Rap by Royal Children's Hospital

The Jungle Song by Royal Children's Hospital

Going Home by Royal Children's Hospital

The Girl Who Climbed A Tree by Royal Children's Hospital

Driving Around Australia by Royal Children's Hospital

Glittery Wings by Royal Children's Hospital

Dirt Mud Money Gold by Royal Children's Hospital

Here I Am by Royal Children's Hospital

If I Saw You by Royal Children's Hospital

Living In A Lolly Land by Royal Children's Hospital

Lullaby by Royal Children's Hospital

Release In The Daybreak by Royal Children's Hospital

In this edition, we hear about current and emerging research in paediatric rehabilitation from a selection of practitioners with the Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Service. We'll hear this discussion in four parts - this is part two. In parts one, three and four; early detection and intervention, participation in rehabilitation and upper limb orthosis. This episode features Sue Greaves, Acting Manager of Occupational Therapy at the Royal Children's Hospital. Sue gives some updates on exciting new things happening in the outpatient developmental assessment programs at the Children's. Now, Sue starts with an acronym - AHDAC is the Allied Health Developmental Assessment Clinic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Olivia Wells is currently a 4th year medical student at Monash University, Former Miss Universe Australia (2013) and current mentor for the Miss Universe Australia programClinical brain tumour research at the Royal Children's Hospital. She is also an Ambassador for The Robert Connor Dawes Foundation, The OTIS Foundation and board member for Blue Ribbon Foundation Blue Ribbon DayWith such a busy schedule and her time being very precious to her I would just like to thank Olivia for taking the time to talk on our show this week. On this episode we speak with Olivia and discus her journey from starting out as a young up and coming swimmer to winning the Miss Universe competition and now completing her medical degree.Olivia is a fascinating women and someone that I have had the pleasure to have known for many years and watch grow into the passionate and inspiring women she is today. From her early days as a high level age group swimmer, she has learnt that hard work can help you achieve what you set out to do and this philosophy now see's her in her final year of medical school and looking to work in the field of paediatric brain tumour research.This all took a slight left turn when in her final year of school, as a joke, she filled out the form to enter the Miss Universe Australia pageant. To her surprise she was selected to move onto the qualifying rounds and would see her go on to win the entire event. She has used this time in the spotlight to further her ambitions to help underprivileged children in developing countries who suffer from disabilities that would otherwise be easy fixes if they had been born in the developed world.It is a fascinating talk and I thoroughly enjoyed my time talking with Olivia and would like to thank her for her time and for sitting down with me to discuss her life to date.If you enjoyed this show and found it helpful it would mean the world to me if you could share it with your friends on social media.Also, don't forget to subscribe to keep up with future episodes and the amazing guests we still have to come.Lastly if you could leave a rating that would be great even if you leave a 1.... But a 5 would be even better :-)Olivia Wells Details:​Instagram: @_livwells

That first experience of seeing "Doctor" written next to your name is both thrilling and slightly bizarre. So what does a trainee doctor do? And how do you get there? How much is an acceptable amount of time to debrief about the trials and tribulations of medicine with housemates? Yes, it's something that needs limiting. And what is it about beards and authority? Hear about becoming a doctor with Dr James McGann from The Royal Children's Hospital. Hosted and edited by Val McFarlane. Audio engineering by Gavin Nebeauer with assistance from Arch Cuthbertson. Produced by Meredith Lewis and Dr Andi Horvath.

In the studio this week post radiothon are Chris KP, Dr Lauren II and Dr Shane.News: Fang Blennies venom, Heart Tissue on spinach tissue, Asteroid BZ509's orbit.The First guest (in the studio) is Prof Jamie Rossjohn, Head, Infection and Immunity Program, Monash University who talks about the immune system and how it goes wrong and how to treat that.The Second Guest (in the studio) is Dr Margie Danchin, Paediatrician, Department of General Medicine, The Royal Children's Hospital talks about vaccination and parental concerns about immunisation aversity. SARAH project.Remember, ""Science is everywhere"", including:Website, Facebook, Twitter, Podcastsand every Sunday at 11:00a.m AEST on RRR 102.7mHz FM.

The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne brings you stories from across our community, reflecting on the challenges, and opportunities, of cultural diversity at the RCH. The program was made for Cultural Diversity Week 2017, and is presented by David Chong, a plastic surgeon at The Royal Children's Hospital.

Dr Adrienne Harvey looks at the current evidence and future research directions in dyskinetic cerebral palsy. Adrienne is a Research Physiotherapist in Developmental Medicine at the Royal Children's Hospital and a researcher with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Links from this episode: SCPE-CP Classification Tree Care pathways for dystonia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, sees tens of thousands of children each year. Many of them are extremely anxious about the testing and procedures they need to endure during their treatment. We tell the story of how an app was created, using thoughtful UX, which made a significant improvement in the anxiety levels of, and gave back a feeling of control to, these kids. To be notified of new episodes subscribe to us on iTunes, join our newsletter or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Rachel Toovey, a PhD candidate and physiotherapist with the Centre of Research Excellence in Cerebral Palsy, talks about the hip surveillance project. Recorded live at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

So what is this?! Dr Shane from Einstein A-Go-Go and Bron from Radio Marinara are in the studio and taken over Radiotherapy! Oh No! Malice has joined them for this program however so it all isn't a horrific wacky takeover that you would expect - there arestill medical happenings to discuss!Bron looks at the Bends, which funnily enough isn't actually a Radiohead album. The hosts also talk about the recent issue of the Royal Children's Hospital who refused to release an asylum seeker into detention and Stairway Foundation founder Lars Jorgensen comes in to also talk about the issues at the hospital as well as the subject of child exploitation in the Philippines. Greg Foot-Connolly also comes in to talk about Scuba For Change, which is a program that attempts to teach first-aid in under-developed communities. Malice somehow gets a segment in as well where he talks about what makes people cry.This episodeis hosted by the team of Dr Shane from Einstein A Go-Go, Bron from Radio Marinara & Malice.

Dr Shane, Andrea, and Chris KP talk to Glenn Nagle from CSIRO's Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, about their role in receiving data from New Horizons mission to Pluto. They also have a chat with Rob Sturrock from the Centre for Policy Development, Sydney, and author of The Longest Conflict: Australia's Climate Security Challenge, about how Climate Change will affect our future, and the report's recommendations.Finally, they interview Dr Janine Cooper, Honorary Fellow, Child Neuropsychology, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute at The Royal Children's Hospital, about her work with children's memory problems.The show wraps up with Fiona explaining about the science of snow.Program page: http://www.rrr.org.au/program/einstein-a-go-go/Facebook page: Einstein A Go GoTwitter: https://twitter.com/einstein_agogo

Dr Shane, Dr Lauren, and Dr Krystal bring you the week's hottest science - biolimb transports & developments in regenerative medicine, a test that can measure your viral history, and Pluto's moons' orbits. Continuing the Space theme, Dr Shane reviews Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree.The team speak with Mark Wakeham, CEO of Environment Victoria, about state renewable energy targets.They also interview Dr Zerina Lokmic (Head of Vascular Anomalies Research Laboratory; Clinical Nurse Consultant - Vascular Anomalies; Senior Lecturer - Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne; Murdoch Childrens Research Institute; Royal Children's Hospital) about the causes of vascular anomalies such as birthmarks.Program page: http://www.rrr.org.au/program/einstein-a-go-go/Facebook page: Einstein A Go GoTwitter: https://twitter.com/einstein_agogo