Pediatric Emergency Playbook

AUGUST 1, 2020

Pediatrics 2011; 128:e741. 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. The Inter-Association Task Force for Preventing Sudden Death in Secondary School Athletics Programs: Best-Practices Recommendations. J Athl Train.

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Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Stroke Burns Pediatrics 52

Emergency Medicine Ireland

JUNE 10, 2024

We’re going to cover a bit of an environmental/tox topic today and look at carbon monoxide poisoning from Oh’s manual chapter 83 on burns. Patients are going to be pretty sick often from multiple pathologies but COHb on its own is enough to produce severe neurological injury, shock and even cardiac injury is also quite prevalent.

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Poisoning EMS Burns Shock 52

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Case 1: Toddler with an oral commissure burn An electrical burn to the angle of the mouth cauterizes superficial bleeding vessels, and hours later the wound becomes covered with a white layer of fibrin, surrounded by erythema. Most patients do well, and the burn heals by secondary intention. Take Home Points 1. J Pediatr Surg.

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Burns Emergency Department EKG/ECG Shock 40

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Etomidate is perfectly acceptable, but ketamine is actually a superior drug to etomidate in the rapid sequence intubation of children in septic shock. On the other side of the spectrum, permissive hypotension is not described in children, as hypotension is a late and dangerous sign of shock. Relax, it’s a myth.

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Shock Sepsis Airway Management Pediatrics 40

Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

However, PCT can be elevated in severe trauma, such as burns or surgery [5,25]. A 2011 meta-analysis in the journal of Academic Emergency Medicine found ESR, CRP, and PCT were not acutely useful in the diagnosis of septic arthritis due to wildly varying sensitivities and specificities between studies. 2011 Jan;3(1):118-27.

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Infectious Diseases Sepsis Emergency Department Point-of-Care Testing 89

PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

Guidelines for field triage of injured patients: recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011. 2011 Aug;58(2):145-55. You should also consider the possibility of quote unquote spinal shock. than it is spinal shock. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2012 Jan 13;61(RR-1):1-20. PMID: 22237112. Ann Emerg Med.

Fractures 52

Fractures Pediatrics Radiology Radiology 52

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JANUARY 1, 2017

neutropenia) ( Babl 2011 , Dokko 2014 ). Pediatric burns should be assessed carefully and treated aggressively. Minor burns can be treated topically and with oral medications. Minor burns can be treated topically and with oral medications. Major burns require IN, IM, or IV analgesics with morphine. Acad Emerg Med.

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Pediatrics Soft Tissue Injuries Burns Emergency Department 40