Mark Lyttle
@mdlyttle
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PEM enthusiast, comic geek, tired parent, accidental researcher. Needs to learn how to say no.
Bristol, UK
Joined June 2009
Up to 15k on offer in the RCEM Autumn research call - what are you waiting for? Ideally suited to a pilot study, piece of qualitative research, single centre research intervention, literature review, an innovation implementation or perhaps a review of current practice? U choose!
🚀 Trainees, new consultants & aspiring academics – this is for YOU! Our grants can help build your research career. 💡 Pilot project idea? 💼 Need part-funding for a sub-study? 📈 Want to grow your academic portfolio? Up to £15,000 funding. 📅 Deadline: 22 Sept 2025 📥
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Among febrile infants <90d with +ve urinalysis results 1% meningitis 7% bacteraemia 21% UTI Secondary analysis FIDO observational PED cohort study🇬🇧
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Great to see our study findings highlighted @itvnews news - hopefully the publicity will encourage anyone currently pregnant to consider getting the maternal RSV vaccine https://t.co/tZQuUoSjYi
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CRAFFT — the UK-wide RCT for displaced distal radius fractures in children — is wrapping up. Final follow-up complete. Analysis soon begins. A huge collaboration in paediatric trauma research. 🎥 https://t.co/JamWKQsdtD
@PERUKItweep @BSCOS_UK @NIHRresearch
#Fracture #RCT
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Only 27 participants needed to complete recruitment in the https://t.co/JamWKQsdtD Then, we’ll have 750 randomised 💪🤩 @bota_uk - your last chance to get involved https://t.co/JbvvfVLUBd
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The @PERUKItweep paper on UK & Ireland discharging practices for children with wheeze is out! https://t.co/PhbdFMPvI5 Not always comfortable reading. Science of 'discharging the wheezing child' in desperate need of firm evidence as variation abounds HT Romanie Hannah & Team
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Emergency department discharge practices for children with acute wheeze and asthma Wide variation in treatment and patient info @damian_roland @mdlyttle @PERUKItweep Survey of discharge practice and safety netting instructions 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 https://t.co/ZKuYXVDgjF
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Study 3 from https://t.co/HyzsJhbxO8 - CRAFFT RCT. Summer is coming - kids wrist fractures are too! Anatomical reduction (surgery) vs. remodelling (no surgery). We are sooo close 😜 - 30 remaining (of 750). Be excited. @Oxford_Trauma @BSCOS_UK @NIHRresearch @PERUKItweep
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@Damian_Roland @mdlyttle @KJWkathryn @stuarthartshorn could you please share with PEM colleagues? Parent interviews near completion, staff perspectives needed. Thanks 🙏🏻
Looking for ED staff to take part in a focus group exploring how parental distress is understood and supported in PEDs I’m sure there are lots of brilliant staff members who would be interested, please share with your network @PERUKItweep @shroukmessahel @kerry_woolfall
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The 700th participant was last night randomised into the https://t.co/JamWKQsdtD 💥🤩 50 to go….with playground season soon upon us! Thanks to the study teams up and down the country.
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Do you tick all of these boxes? ✅️ #healthcare professional ✅️ in #emergencycare ✅️ treating children & young people If so, please follow the link ⬇️ to start this survey in order to help set #research priorities for #paediatric #EmergencyMedicine. https://t.co/Qc7AtmOBa6
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🚨 New job alert - please share far and wide: 🌟Join us at the Centre for Health and Clinical Research (CHCR) at @UWEBristol! 📣Research Fellow - Realist Evaluation ⏰Closing date: 18-Feb-24 📋Full time, two years More info and apply here: https://t.co/obVwkSiN1q
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Great article by the @BBCNews highlighting the work of our very own @laurakgoodwin on #neonatal #hypothermia in prehospital births. Well done Laura 👏 #changeofpractice #research #impact 🚑 @CHCR_UWE @capcbristol @swasftResearch
https://t.co/oL9F4KNFpU
bbc.co.uk
A new study finds only 2.7% of babies born this way have their temperatures checked after birth.
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Good luck to all the finalists at the #HSJDigitalAwards this evening 🤞 We’re delighted to be shortlisted for 2 awards! The Digital Children’s Emergency Department Project Team is up for Digital Team of the Year, and Dr Mark Lyttle is shortlisted for Digital Leader of the Year🙌
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Can't believe it's been a year already! A good oppportunity for sites who haven't yet submitted cases to get their skates on...(I'm off to check ours....)
It is the final month of the @MAGNETICstudy ! 🏁🏁 Please upload all cases of magnet 🧲ingestion to -www.redcap.link/MAGNETIC Contact us on magneticstudy2022@gmail.com with any queries 👍 @BAPS1953 @RCPCHtweets @PERUKItweep
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Excited to see our study on @ICON_COPE (coping with a crying baby) in @BBCBristol - more info below! What a great team: @mdlyttle Maria Barnes @julie_mytton @JelenaSavovic Theresa Redaniel @hstmcleod @csrejon & @jonijacksoni at @BristolUni @ARC_West @PublicHealthUWE & @uhbwNHS💪
Look out for a piece about ICON (Babies Cry - You Can Cope) from @matthewhillbbc on @bbcbristol Points West today, including our evaluation of the programme. ICON aims to help parents cope when their baby cries Project: https://t.co/vcPfRWhFfJ BBC coverage
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Important work from our colleague @mdlyttle and team on preventing abusive #head #trauma in #babies "The University of the West of England is investigating whether giving prospective and new parents safety tips cuts shaken baby syndrome." @CHCR_UWE
https://t.co/Vfn0Dlyc6F
bbc.co.uk
A university is researching if giving new parents safety tips reduces incidents of the syndrome.
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A privilege to work with @julie_mytton @JelenaSavovic and @ARC_West team on this syst review, very timely as effective intervention needed most at times of societal stress
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Thanks to #BSPED2022 for inviting me to speak alongside the amazing Dr Ponmani who lead the UK & Ireland @PERUKItweep DIMPLES study at the paediatric diabetes & COVID symposium. @rgnijman @Damian_Roland @mdlyttle @NCRCIre @OGormanClodagh
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What happened in the 2021 RSV epidemic in UK and Ireland that peaked in August? 25% admitted from ED 2.5% went to PICU Read about it here: @Damian_Roland @wheezylikesund1 @mdlyttle
https://t.co/80mxaDuUql
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