Information Leaflets & Videos
The SPEG Nurses Group have developed leaflets and videos to provide support and information to families with children who have endocrine conditions.
A Full Selection of Adrenal Insufficiency Guidelines can be found here:
List of Adrenal Insufficiency Guidelines
SPEG Medication Videos
This short video (with subtitles) details the procedure for administering an emergency Intramuscular Hydrocortisone injection using a ready-diluted preparation (Hydrocortisone Sodium Phosphate):
This short video (with subtitles) details the procedure for administering an emergency Intramuscular Hydrocortisone injection using a powdered formula that requires dilution prior to administration (Hydrocortisone Sodium Succinate):
Leaflets
- Adrenarche – Parent Information Booklet
- Arginine stimulation test: information for patients, parents, and carers
- Gonadotrophin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Test: Information for Patients, Parents and Carers
- Growth Hormone Deficiency – A young person’s guide
- How to Give Thyroxine to Babies and Children: Information for Patients, Parents and Carers
- Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin (hCG) Test: Information for Patients, Parents and Carers
- Insulin Tolerance Test (ITT): Information for Patients, Parents and Carers
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) leaflet
- Precocious Puberty in Boys: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Precocious Puberty in Girls: A Parents Guide
Videos
The What? Why? Children in Hospital website has a video library to help children and young people prepare for their hospital visit. There you will find information videos around blood tests, MRIs and cannulas.
The Edinburgh Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes has some educational videos for blood glucose testing and insulin training.
British Thyroid Association
– Useful Video
Health Sketch website is a project by junior doctors in the UK. Their aim is to produce health explanation videos that are accurate, engaging and memorable for patients and the general public.
