PEMBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Thousands of children and adolescents spend days at time in Emergency Departments waiting for definitive mental health disposition. West J Emerg Med. Mental Health Revisits at US Pediatric Emergency Departments. Prolonged emergency department length of stay for US pediatric mental health visits (2005-2015).

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EMDocs

AUGUST 22, 2024

12 How do we address these disparities in the emergency department? Train your staff on best practices for using phone interpreters. An implementation science approach improves language access in the emergency department. Annals of Emergency Medicine. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 45:446-458.

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PEMBlog

MAY 17, 2023

Most children who present to Pediatric Emergency Departments these days with mental health concerns – including agitation – have a known psychiatric problem or diagnosis. J Inherit Metab Dis 2007; 30:631. Psychiatric emergencies. West J Emerg Med. Chun TH, Sargent J, Hodas GR. 2019 Mar;20(2):409-418.

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EMDocs

JUNE 16, 2023

And now we’re here at our destination, the place we know and love, the emergency room to talk about what we should be doing for the growing volume of children with mental health problems boarding in the emergency department.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

7-year-old Tilly is brought to your emergency department at 11 p.m. Abdominal pain in children is common, accounting for over 1 in 20 attendances to paediatric emergency departments [1]. Clinical scoring tools have improved diagnostic performance in assessing suspected appendicitis in the emergency department.

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EB Medicine

MAY 3, 2019

This month, we’re moving into uncharted territories for the podcast… we’re talking psychiatry Nachi: Specifically, we’ll be discussing Depressed and Suicidal Patients in the emergency department. Nachi: Though not yet implemented in the ED setting, this may offer a novel approach to ED patients with psychiatric emergencies in the ED.

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Taming the SRU

OCTOBER 23, 2023

THE CASE A female in her early 20s, G4P2012, presents to the emergency department (ED) with a 5 day history of left lower quadrant abdominal pain which has been worsening since onset. Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Volume 23, Issue 4, 2009. Pages 501-508, ISSN 1521-6934. O'Brien, E.

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