PEMBlog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Diagnostic Costs : RSV rapid tests: $100-$400 (higher end when included in multiplex testing) Risk Stratification : Infants <6 months, especially those with prematurity, chronic lung disease, or congenital heart disease, have a heightened risk of hospitalization. MMWR Recomm Rep 2003; 52:1. Clin Microbiol Infect 2003; 9:247.

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Rapid Diagnostic Testing Pediatrics Dehydration Outcomes 52

EMDocs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

2 This requirement was ultimately removed in 2003, however iron related exposures and deaths have stayed low. 6 Can see subsequent electrolyte disturbances and dehydration related to severity of GI symptoms. Iron Ingestion: an Evidence-Based Consensus Guideline for Out-of-Hospital Management. Manoguerra, A. Erdman, A.

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Poisoning Fluid Resuscitation Seizures Resuscitation 94

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

He divides his time between a tertiary children’s hospital and a community hospital that is busy enough to have its own paediatric […] The post SGEM#228: Winds of Change – High Flow Nasal Oxygen for Acute Bronchiolitis? She is not clinically dehydrated and has a temp of 38.2C NEJM March 2018. NEJM March 2018.

Dehydration 40

Dehydration Pediatrics Hospitals Academics 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Author continued : STE in aVR is often due to left main coronary artery obstruction (OR 4.72), and is associated with in-hospital cardiovascular mortality (OR 5.58). For instance: sepsis, bleeding, dehydration, hypoxia, and mild ACS. N Engl J Med 2003; 348:1756-1763, 5/1/2013. Aortic valve surgery as an emergency procedure.

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EKG/ECG Shock Fluid Resuscitation Documentation/Coding 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

Also consider non-hemorrhagic volume depletion, dehydration : orthostatic vitals may uncover this [see Mendu et al. (3)]. Premonitory symptoms (Nausea, pallor, diaphoresis, flushing), or triggers (Valsalva, Pain, Emotion, Prolonged Standing, Dehydration) are very useful in making the diagnosis. Vasovagal syncope is generally benign.

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Emergency Department EKG/ECG Outcomes Seizures 52

Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 5, 2023

GPs and local hospitals should provide easy access to medication and vaccinations to ensure good compliance. At home, he has had 24 hours of alternating paracetamol and ibuprofen, but the pain was so unbearable that his parents came to hospital in the middle of the night. What medications would you give to control pain in hospital?

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Blood Transfusions Stroke Dehydration Sepsis 126