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emDOCs Revamp – Acute Chest Syndrome

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2006 Jul;134(1):109-15. Intravenous fluid therapy and hospital outcomes for vaso-occlusive episodes in children, adolescents, and young adults with sickle cell disease. Factors associated with adverse outcome among children with sickle cell disease admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit: an observational cohort.

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Sickle Cell Disease Module

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Furthermore, educating both patients and their families is important in order to achieve good treatment compliance and better clinical outcomes. It has been routine practice in the UK since 2006. Home analgesia: Advise families at home to increase fluid intake to avoid dehydration (dehydration will prolong painful episodes).

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Caring for children after a kidney transplant

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Inadequate fluid consumption, combined with factors like hot weather or strenuous physical activity, can lead to gradual dehydration with cumulative effects. Differential Diagnosis of Acute Issues Dehydration Every child will have a minimum daily fluid intake goal to achieve. Are they achieving their daily hydration goals? Aydin, A.M.,

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EM@3AM: Hyperthermia

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Clinical characteristics and outcome of thyroid storm: a case series and review of neuropsychiatric derangements in thyrotoxicosis. Clinical presentation, treatment, and complications of malignant hyperthermia in North America from 1987 to 2006. Temps greater than 41.5C BMC research notes , 8 , 758. link] Swee, duS., L., & Lim, A.

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

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Also consider non-hemorrhagic volume depletion, dehydration : orthostatic vitals may uncover this [see Mendu et al. (3)]. Cardiac Syncope ("True Syncope") Independent Predictors of Adverse Outcomes condensed from multiple studies 1. These premonitory symptoms were negative predictors of adverse outcomes in EGSYS.

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Pain Management of Common Chief Complaints in the ED

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A comprehensive, patient-centered approach to pain management ensures effective treatment across these diverse pain syndromes, ultimately improving patient outcomes. Cause and outcome of atypical chest pain in patients admitted to hospital. 2006 Jun;26(6):684-90. References: Chang HY, Daubresse M, Kruszewski SP, Alexander GC.

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

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For patients who are elderly, orthostasis is an unreliable clinical finding and may be present in the absence of dehydration. 13 While there is good data that early antibiotics for patients in septic shock reduce mortality 18-19 the role of early and aggressive volume resuscitation and its impacts on patient-centered outcomes remain unclear.