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Pediatric Pain

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Neonatal pain pathways are particularly plastic; prompt assessment of and increased alertness to neonatal pain may help to mitigate long-lived pain sensitivity and hyperalgesia ( Taddio 2002 ). For many medications, these children will have a greater weight-normalized clearance than adults ( Berde 2002 ). Acad Emerg Med.

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IV fluids in the ED: When do we really need them?

EMDocs

The latest Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) sepsis guidelines from 2021 recommend giving patients with signs of hypoperfusion an initial 30 ml/kg bolus as a best practice statement 13 based on the PROCESS, 14 ARISE, 15 and PROMISE 16 trials. Does this dyspneic patient in the emergency department have congestive heart failure?