Built for the PEM section of the FRCEM Final SBA
Paediatric questions are some of the highest-impact items in the FRCEM Final SBA — and the trickiest to revise for, because the guidance is scattered across NICE, RCEM, BSPED, APLS, JBDS and a handful of specialty colleges. This ebook pulls all of it into one place and strips it down to what actually gets asked.
Every chapter is mapped to RCEM SLO9 (Children's Emergency Medicine) and written in the same peer-to-peer voice as the rest of EM Final Exams — like a trusted senior colleague walking you through the topic the night before your exam.
What's inside
- 30+ paediatric guidelines covering the topics examiners reliably reach for
- Sourced from NICE, RCEM, BSPED, APLS and JBDS — no random blog summaries, no out-of-date pathways
- Key Points · Common Mistakes · Exam Focus for every topic, so you can see at a glance what's high-yield and where candidates lose marks
- SBA-ready — written so each topic maps directly to the kind of question you'll meet on the day
- 164 pages, structured chapters, fully bookmarked contents — easy to dip in and out of on the train or between night shifts
Topics include
Bronchiolitis · Croup · Paediatric asthma · Sepsis in children · Fever in under 5s · DKA in children · Anaphylaxis · Status epilepticus · Paediatric head injury · Gastroenteritis and dehydration · UTI in children · Meningitis and meningococcal disease · Intussusception · Foreign body airway obstruction · Paediatric BLS/ALS · Safeguarding and the unwell child · Adolescents in the ED — and more.
Who it's for
EM trainees sitting the FRCEM Final SBA, EM trainees preparing for the MRCEM SBA paediatric component, and any ED clinician who wants a clean, exam-aligned reference for paediatric presentations.
Updated May 2026
Last reviewed against current UK guidance in May 2026. Delivered as a single PDF with bookmarked contents — read on your phone, tablet or laptop.