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Altered Mental Status in Children

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

For altered adults, use AEIOU TIPS (Alcohol-Epilepsy-Insulin-Overdose-Uremia-Trauma-Infection-Psychosis-Stroke). sludge phenomenon, secondary sepsis, hypoglycemia from supply-demand mismatch) S – Seizure (e.g. sludge phenomenon, secondary sepsis, hypoglycemia from supply-demand mismatch) S – Seizure (e.g. V – Vascular (e.g.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 100: Acute Chest Syndrome Part 1

EMDocs

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) Underestimates alveolar hypoxemia. Vichinsky EP, Neumayr LD, Earles AN, et al.

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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

This document is an update of guidelines first published in 2000, and then updated in 2007. Confounders to the GCS such as seizure and post-ictal phase, ingestions and drug overdose, as well as medications administered in the prehospital setting that impact GCS score should be documented.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 101: Acute Chest Syndrome Part 2

EMDocs

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). Underestimates alveolar hypoxemia. Vichinsky EP, Neumayr LD, Earles AN, et al.

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MI in Children

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

The previously well child now decompensated: undiagnosed thrombophilia Asymptomatic patent foramen ovale (PFO) is the cause of some cases of cryptogenic vascular disease, such as stroke and MI. Viral myocarditis Presenting with Seizure and Electrocardiographic Findings of Acute Myocardial Infarction in a 14-Month-Old Child.

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

EB Medicine

Nachi: And patients with neurologic deficits or severe sudden-onset headaches, should be transported immediately to the nearest available stroke center. Jeff: In terms of BP management, guidelines from the american stroke association recommend targeting a SBP of 160 with a titratable agent like nicardipine or clevidipine.

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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. to 1.45) for fatal or nonfatal stroke. 21(11):935-40, 2000 Jun. to 1.51) for death from any cause, 1.27 (95 percent confidence interval, 0.99 European Heart Journal.