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The Undifferentiated Sick Infant

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

The combination of abnormalities determines the category of pathophysiology: respiratory distress, respiratory failure, CNS or metabolic problem, shock, or cardiopulmonary failure. Does this child look volume depleted? Endocrine Emergencies - Could this be congenital adrenal hyperplasia with low sodium, high potassium, and shock?

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MI in Children

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

The infant in shock after a ‘cold’: myocarditis Beware of the poor feeding, tachycardic, ill appearing infant who “has a cold” because everyone else around him has a ‘cold’. 2004; 90:e17. 2004; 110:e511-e513. 2004; 114(2):255-258. Chacko P et al. 2004; 89:359-362. African Health Sci. 2014; 14(1): 23-227.

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Neonatal Jaundice

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

He will be dehydrated – possibly in shock. Acute bilirubin encephalopathy may progress to an abnormal neurologic exam, seizures, apnea, or coma. 2004; 114(1). My take away: we now have some evidence basis for using filtered sunlight as an adjunct for babies well enough to go home. He will be irritable. Pediatrics. Pediatrics.