The Medical journal of Australia
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Over the next 10 years, the healthcare system will change to focus more on preventive medicine and healthcare in the home, with fewer doctors and a new class of home healthcare providers. Healthcare professionals need to debate how best to manage these changes.
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To delineate clinical characteristics useful for identifying children with liver failure due to accidental paracetamol overdose. ⋯ Accidental paracetamol overdose is associated with fulminant hepatic failure in infants and children. Patients present with high transaminase levels and liver synthetic failure out of proportion to the level of serum bilirubin. Prompt identification of such patients is important as many recover with supportive therapy.