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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

Children’s Mental Health Emergency Department Visits: 2007-2016. Parent/Professional Advocacy League: Best Practices: Pediatric Emergency Department Psychiatric Boarding Kraft CM, Morea P, Teresi B, et al. Pediatrics. 2021;147(5):e2020030692. doi: 10.1542/peds.2020-030692 Pediatrics. 2020 Jun;145(6):e20191536.

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Improving Care for Patients with a Non-English Language Preference (NELP)

EMDocs

Train your staff on best practices for using phone interpreters. There are several tools that help us identify our implicit biases and bring cultural humility into our daily practice. Conducting research regarding best practices for improving health outcomes for NELP patients. April 2007. SAEM Pulse.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

PEMBlog

J Inherit Metab Dis 2007; 30:631. Best Practices for Evaluation and Treatment of Agitated Children and Adolescents (BETA) in the Emergency Department: Consensus Statement of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry. Collaborative Care in the Identification and Management of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults.

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Heat-Related Illness

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

The Inter-Association Task Force for Preventing Sudden Death in Secondary School Athletics Programs: Best-Practices Recommendations. Pediatr Rev 2007; 28:249. Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness and Council on School Health, Policy statement—Climatic heat stress and exercising children and adolescents. Casa DJ et al.

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PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 5: The Boarded ED Patient

EMDocs

ED Best Practices Optimizing the Environment Separate area from main ED is possible that has less distractions, loud noises. Children’s Mental Health Emergency Department Visits: 2007-2016. Parent/Professional Advocacy League: Best Practices: Pediatric Emergency Department Psychiatric Boarding Kraft CM, Morea P, Teresi B, et al.

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Paediatric Appendicitis

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Clinical scoring tools for appendicitis The recently published Best Practice Pathway Guidance by NHS England recommends using clinical risk scores to assess all children with suspected appendicitis. JAMA, 2007. Remember to test for urine b-HCG in female patients. Bachur, R.G., Pediatrics, 2012. 129 (5): p. Bundy, D.G.,

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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

1 The practice guidelines were written by a multi-disciplinary group of experts and went through an extensive peer review process. This document is an update of guidelines first published in 2000, and then updated in 2007.