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SGEM #425: Are You Ready for This? Pediatric Readiness of Emergency Departments

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One of the key motivations was the recognition that we needed to get out of the ivory towers of academic pediatric emergency medicine centers as most children are cared for outside of academic centers. Two previous studies conducted assessing the state of nationwide pediatric readiness were conducted in 2003 and 2013.

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Glasgow Coma Scale in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

Academic emergency medicine 12.9 2003 Jul;40(7):620-5. Systematic review showed 85% of studies with substantial reliability with kappa statistic >0.6 Acad Emerg Med. 2016 Aug;23(8):878-84. doi: 10.1111/acem.13014. Epub 2016 Aug 1. PMID: 27197686. Holmes, James F et al. 2005): 814–819. Indian J Pediatr. 2001 Apr;68(4):311-4.

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SGEM#399: I’m So Tired – Emergency Medicine and Fatigue

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Knutsson 2003) I imagine many of us know of a doctor who has been in a car accident when driving home from work. AEM March 2023 * Population: A convenience sample of emergency physicians from a single academic emergency department. Our sleep schedules impact our overall health. Reference: Fowler et al.

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SGEM Xtra: NNT – WET or DRI

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Outside of his academic duties, he works clinically in the adult ED at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the tertiary care center for Western Michigan. SGEM#23 : A Bump Up Ahead (Diagnosis of Appendicitis) One of my other favourite BMJ holiday edition articles has been the classic parachute trial ( Smith and Pell BMJ Dec 2003 ).

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Return Encounters in Emergency Department Patients Treated with Phenobarbital Versus Benzodiazepines for Alcohol Withdrawal

RebelEM

What They Did: Retrospective cohort study at a single academic medical center between July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2019. New England Journal of Medicine 2003 , 348 (18), 1786-1795. O’Connor, P. Management of Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra020617. (2) 2) Schuckit, M. N Engl J Med 2014 , 371 (22), 2109-2113.

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SGEM#201: It’s in the Way That You Use It – Ottawa SAH Tool

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

CMAJ Nov 2017 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Carpenter is from Washington University, Deputy Editor of Academic Emergency Medicine and faculty member of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care course. Edlow 2003 ] Missed SAH diagnosis occurs between 12%-53% of cases with emergency department providers estimated to miss 5% of them.

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Emergency Nurses Week 2017

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

July 2003), Emergency Nursing: Historical, Current, and Future Roles. Academic Emergency Medicine, 10: 798–804. October 2003). Schriver, J. Talmadge, R., and Hedges, J. doi:10.1197/aemj.10.7.798 10.7.798 [ PDF ] Schriver, J. Talmadge, R., Chuong, R., & Hedges, J.