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You don’t need labs or CT scans in children who have recovered after a simple febrile or first time seizure

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Team members and families eagerly await your intervention to halt the seizure and understand its underlying cause. The lack of utility of laboratory testing in children with an unprovoked generalized seizure, or a simple febrile seizure is supported by several observational studies.

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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

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This document is an update of guidelines first published in 2000, and then updated in 2007. These guidelines present the best available evidence to support clinical decision making in the prehospital setting when TBI care may have the most significant impact on outcomes; they also establish a research agenda for future investigations.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 100: Acute Chest Syndrome Part 1

EMDocs

Causes and outcomes of the acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease. National Acute Chest Syndrome Study Group [published correction appears in N Engl J Med 2000 Sep 14;343(11):824]. Infectious: bacterial or viral pneumonia ( M. pneumoniae, C. Am J Emerg Med. 2022 Aug;58:235-244. Epub 2022 Jun 11. PMID: 35717760. N Engl J Med.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 101: Acute Chest Syndrome Part 2

EMDocs

Causes and outcomes of the acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease. National Acute Chest Syndrome Study Group [published correction appears in N Engl J Med 2000 Sep 14;343(11):824]. Infectious: bacterial or viral pneumonia ( M. pneumoniae, C. Based on light absorption from blood flow at the sensor site (using HbA, not HbS).

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Beyond Ketamine: When to use Facilitated Intubation in the ED

EMDocs

Still, there are those that believe that FPS is more of a physician-centered endpoint that does not fully reflect important patient-centric outcomes (16). Contraindicated seizures or porphyria. Chest 2000; 117(1): 260 – 7. 2000 Jan-Mar;4(1):14-8. Minimal histamine release. Cons: Short duration of action.

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Episode 25 - Evaluation and Management of Life-Threatening Headaches in the Emergency Department

EB Medicine

In addition, one 2015 study found that patients without xanthrochromia and less than 2000 RBC were effectively ruled out of having a SAH with a combined sensitivity of 100% Jeff: Lots of 100% sensitivities and specificities being thrown around today, which is definitely not the norm. Seizures are very common as well.

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

First: Are you sure it was syncope, and not SEIZURE? Conversely , frequently syncope has a short episode of tonic-clonic activity that mimics seizure. Cardiac Syncope ("True Syncope") Independent Predictors of Adverse Outcomes condensed from multiple studies 1. Abnormal ECG – looks for cardiac syncope. 2007 Oct; 33(3): 233–239.