Pediatric EM Morsels

JULY 21, 2023

We have mentioned the Glasgow Coma Scale in multiple delicious morsels: Minor closed head injuries in <3 month olds and in the rebaked morsel , Blunt cerebrovascular injury , Cerebral edema in DKA , Pediatric Trauma Pitfalls , and Carbon monoxide poisoning. Predicting outcome in individual patients after severe head injury.

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EMDocs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In mass poisoning cases, DEG has been substituted as a solvent in oral medications and in topical medicinal products. 4 Despite the policy changes in the United States, epidemic poisonings involving DEG continue to impact adults and children on a global scale with 14 mass poisonings occurring since the Sulfanilamide Disaster.

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Thinking Critical Care

MAY 18, 2023

Richard was constructing a relational database of severity of illness scores and intensive care outcome at WIG. Should regulatory authorities have done more to prevent the continued use of this poison? 14] N Engl J Med 2008; 358:111-124 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa071366 15 Anaesthesia 2020 May. There are post scriptums to this story.

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EB Medicine

MAY 3, 2019

Jeff: And finally, how many of you wish there was a clearly outlined evidence-based approach to managing such patients to improve care and outcomes? Jeff: If those figures seem a bit high, another CDC study found that in a general population survey of a quarter million people between 2006-2008, 9% met the criteria for major depression.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 4, 2024

Whole bowel irrigation: 3 Not routinely performed and limited evidence to support improved outcome in general. 6,15 Discuss cases of overdose, including pediatric exploratory ingestions, with a medical toxicologist or your local poison center. 2008 Apr;51(4):412-5, 415.e1. Accessed 12/18/2022. Clin Toxicol (Phila). Eds (2017).

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EB Medicine

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Jeff: Do consider adding on a venous or arterial carboxyhemoglobin in the right clinical scenario, as CO poisoning represents an important cause of headache you wouldn’t want to miss. Nachi: Unfortunately, the 2008 ACEP guideline and 2012 AHA guidelines still recommend a lumbar puncture in those being worked up for SAH.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

Introduction: My first professional ambulance call was for three victims of Carbon Monoxide poisoning. 2014;46(6):814-820 on Medscape.com. ** Example trauma case report requiring airway control; the decision process, algorithms, and alternatives, outcome. McGraw-Hill Medical, 2008. McLachlan, G. Rogue Medic. Barton, E.

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