PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Elizabeth Allison AU - Nicola Dawson AU - Jane Phillips AU - Catherine Lynch AU - Jacinta Coleman TI - Fifteen minute consultation: A structured approach to the management of children and adolescents with medically unstable anorexia nervosa AID - 10.1136/archdischild-2016-311394 DP - 2017 Aug 01 TA - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition PG - 175--181 VI - 102 IP - 4 4099 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/102/4/175.short 4100 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/102/4/175.full SO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed2017 Aug 01; 102 AB - Assessing and managing children who are underweight is an integral part of paediatric practice. Young people with anorexia nervosa (AN) are mainly cared for in the community by specialist eating disorder services. However, increasing numbers require admission to paediatric wards with medical instability due to the complications of starvation. Despite recommendations published in the junior MARSIPAN report in 2012, many paediatricians still feel poorly equipped to care for these high-risk patients. This article aims to provide a safe and structured approach to the assessment and management of children and adolescents with medically unstable AN.