Pediatric EM Morsels

JULY 21, 2023

We have mentioned the Glasgow Coma Scale in multiple delicious morsels: Minor closed head injuries in <3 month olds and in the rebaked morsel , Blunt cerebrovascular injury , Cerebral edema in DKA , Pediatric Trauma Pitfalls , and Carbon monoxide poisoning. When is it useful and what does it tell us? 2019): 478–483. Ash, Kristian et al.

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ALiEM

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

 PMID 24072332 Baranwal AK, Singhi SC: Acute iron poisoning: management guidelines. 2000 Jun;59(6):1233-50. PMID: 29083637 Fernández S, Castro P, Nogué S, Nicolás JM: Acute iron intoxication: change in urine color during chelation therapy with deferoxamine. Intensive Care Med 2014; 40(1):104. PMID Indian Pediatr 2003;40(6):534-40. 

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ACEP Now

APRIL 2, 2024

Due to concerns regarding THS, the import of ackee fruit was outlawed in 1972, but since 2000 canned exports have been allowed by certain “green listed” manufacturers by the Federal Drug Administration. 8 Diagnosis and Treatment Food poisoning may result in a similar clinical manifestation as Toxic Hypoglycemic Syndrome. Clin Toxicol.

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 9, 2024

and have spread invasively with the sea currents up the East Coast of the United States (spotted in North Carolina in 2000) and into the Caribbean. A five-year poison center experience. Poisoning, envenomation, and trauma from marine creatures. In 1985, they were spotted in Dania Beach, Fla., Clin Toxicol (Phila). J Emerg Med.

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ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

5 Pediatric discharges were reported by 2,784 hospitals in 2000 and the number of reporting hospitals increased to 4,179 in 2012. From these data, the authors looked at five reporting periods—2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2012—and identified ARF case incidences of 0.63, 0.77, 0.64, 0.51, and 0.52, respectively, per 100,000 children.

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EB Medicine

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Jeff: Do consider adding on a venous or arterial carboxyhemoglobin in the right clinical scenario, as CO poisoning represents an important cause of headache you wouldn’t want to miss. So even if the ESR and CRP are negative, if the suspicion for GCA is high enough, it should be treated and you should get a biopsy.

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Broome Docs

APRIL 30, 2024

PMID: 38497992 Preventing poison ivy? Cost-effective post-exposure prevention of poison ivy dermatitis. 2000 Jul;39(7):515-8. 2024 Mar 18:e240762. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.0762. Why is there so much I never knew Stibich AS, Yagan M, Sharma V, Herndon B, Montgomery C. Int J Dermatol. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-4362.2000.00003.x.

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