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Approach to Shock

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Do we recognize shock early enough? World wide, shock is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children, mostly for failure to recognize or to treat adequately. So, what is shock? Simply put, shock is the inadequate delivery of oxygen to your tissues. How do we prioritize our interventions? Pericardial Effusion?

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Heat-Related Illness

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Heat illness and heat stroke. Pediatr Rev 2007; 28:249. Hyperthermia. In: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Baren JM, Rothrock SG, Brennan JA, Brown L (Eds), Saunders Elsevier, Philadelphia 2008. Jardine DS.

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Glasgow Coma Scale in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

Pediatric adjusted reverse shock index multiplied by Glasgow Coma Scale as a prospective predictor for mortality in pediatric trauma. Validation of a prognostic subarachnoid hemorrhage grading scale derived directly from the Glasgow Coma Scale. 2008 Apr;39(4):1347-8. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.498345. 107.498345. Epub 2008 Feb 28.

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Is it Time to Take Another Look at the State of Emergency Care in the U.S.? 

ACEP Now

This funding expanded the committee’s work to include three reports: Hospital Based Emergency Care – at the Breaking Point ; Emergency Medical Services – at the Crossroads ; and Emergency Care for Children – Growing Pains ,” all released in 2007. Prescott, MD, another member of the committee. “We National Academics.

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Pediatric Pain

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Use soothing sensory measures: speak softly, offer a pacifier, and stroke the skin softly. 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 ).

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EM@3AM: Hyperthermia

EMDocs

Both can result in heat exhaustion and heat stroke and have many overlapping symptoms. Patients with heat stroke have hot, dry skin and altered mental status (e.g., C, and heat stroke occurs at a core temperature > 40°C. C, and heat stroke occurs at a core temperature > 40°C. Temps greater than 41.5C Bendall, J.

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The Definitive Analysis of Observational Studies

Sensible Medicine

Say blueberries and rates of stroke. This came as a shock to me. Then they applied the specification curve analysis to one specific database—the NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) from 2007 to 2014. This time in nutritional epidemiology. In other words: one way.

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