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Glasgow Coma Scale in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

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. Predicting outcome in individual patients after severe head injury.

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SGEM#266: Old Man Take a Look at the Canadian CT Head Rule I’m a Lot Like You Were

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

She is interested in social determinants of health in the emergency department and health policy. Dr. Ian Holley is also a PGY-3 resident in Emergency Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. He is interested in ultrasound and international emergency medicine.

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SGEM#331: Should Patients with a Concussion be told to Walk this Way!

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Westafer serves as the Social Media Editor and a research methodology editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine and an Associate Editor for the NEJM Journal Watch Emergency Medicine. A randomized trial comparing prescribed light exercise to standard management for emergency department patients with acute mild traumatic brain injury.

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SGEM#362: Screen Time – Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You – But Should I Post-Concussion?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

She is an emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital and a Clinician Scientist and the Deputy Director of the Schwartz-Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute. Case: An 18-year-old female presents to the emergency department (ED) after falling off a moving snowmobile and hitting her head on the ground.