KidzAid - Paediatric First Aid Training

13/09/2025

🩺 Fever & Viral Illness:

Fever is the body’s natural way of fighting infection.

Your child’s temperature will return to normal when the infection has completely gone.

This is the immune response and it is completely normal.

29/07/2025

Our emergency department at Monash Medical Centre is currently experiencing extreme demand.

Non-life-threatening presentations will likely experience longer wait times as a result.

If you need urgent care, but it's non-life-threatening, please consider:

💻 Consult the Virtual Emergency Department 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

👉 Visit an Urgent Care Centre

☎️ Telephone NURSE-ON-CALL on 1300 60 60 24

💊 See a GP

Please see the link in our comments for all the information you need.

We want you to be seen as quickly as possible, so if you need care but it is not an emergency, please consider these alternative pathways to care.

In a life-threatening medical emergency, please call Triple Zero (000) or attend the emergency department.

Wait times at our emergency departments vary, as patients are seen in order of clinical urgency. The most sick or injured are always cared for first.

When a patient arrives at one of our emergency departments, they are assessed or 'triaged' for urgency and categorised on a scale from 1 to 5. Category 1 patients require immediate life-saving treatment, whereas Category 5 patients need non-urgent care.

21/05/2025

// Quick tips on paediatric (baby/child) CPR.
Please tag & share with your family and friends, 30:2 is all you do!

04/02/2025

Did you know?

IN AUSTRALIA, DROWNING IS THE LEADING
CAUSE OF UNINTENTIONAL INURY & DEATH IN CHILDREN
UNDER 5.

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15/01/2025

Key points to remember:

Head injuries can be mild, moderate or severe.
Call an ambulance if your child has had a head injury involving high speeds or height, or if after a knock to the head they lose consciousness or vomit more than once.

Your child may develop a number of different symptoms in the weeks after a head injury. If your child develops any of the red flag symptoms described above, you should seek immediate medical attention.

Did you know?

The HeadCheck app can help manage concussion recovery at home and is freely available on the App store and Google store. HeadCheck is an interactive tool; the main benefit is allowing families to monitor children’s symptoms on a daily basis, and then providing examples of appropriate activities based on symptoms and age.

14/01/2025

VIC: Public Course - City Of Kingston MCH & Waves Leisure Centre Highett dates released!

We have teamed up with Waves Leisure Centre and Kingston's Maternal Child & Health Services since 2019 and in 2025 will be offering the local families an opportunity again to learn life saving skills with our team of paediatric medical experts.

**Each participant will receive a certificate of attendance and a comprehensive 250pg eBook. Spots are limited!

https://kidzaid.arlo.co/w/upcoming/

11/01/2025

THIRTEEN years later and I still L❤️‍🩹VE preaching and teaching paediatric CPR! Knowledge is power!

06/11/2024

The end of year is fast approaching with only a couple more public courses up for grabs! We also offer private in home sessions for family and friends, run by medical professionals at a reasonable price!

Register your interest: hello@kidzaid.com.au

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24/10/2024

Febrile Convulsions seem to be a HOT topic at the moment! As a healthcare professional and a mother, I have witnessed first hand my son having two of these events when he was younger. Very scary to watch, but also very common.

Would you know what to do if your child started convulsing?

Here is some further information on how to manage.

Febrile Convulsion It is possible when some children have a fever they may have a febrile convulsion (seizure). This happens when there is a sudden rise in your child’s temperature. 1 in 30 children will have a febrile convulsion. Between 6 months and 6 years. Febrile convulsions are not harmful, ...

16/10/2024

C H O K I N G 💡
Quick tips on how to identify your baby needs help!

Would you know what to do?

Book that course: www.kidzaid.com.au

24/07/2024

Wishing this little guy all the best ❤️‍🩹🫶

An eight-year-old boy who initially complained of a sore neck has now spent over a month in ICU with a condition that has doctors baffled.

24/07/2024

C H O K I N G 💡

Quick tips on how to identify your baby needs help!