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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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Pediatric Pain

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Surgical pain is not “erased” by opioids ( Thomas 2003 , Poonai 2014 ); treating pain improves specificity to certain surgical emergencies with retained diagnostic accuracy ( Manterola 2007 ). Researchers are currently working to offer an evidence base to this anecdotal practice.

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

EMDocs

The latest Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) sepsis guidelines from 2021 recommend giving patients with signs of hypoperfusion an initial 30 ml/kg bolus as a best practice statement 13 based on the PROCESS, 14 ARISE, 15 and PROMISE 16 trials. 2007 Feb;24(2):124125. Orthostatic vital signs in emergency department patients.