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Episode 7: Sepsis

PHEM Cast

[link] We hope you enjoyed our sepsis podcast. St Emlyns Induction podcast on Sepsis. A great summary of what to do when a patient with suspected sepsis first arrives in the ED. A great summary of what to do when a patient with suspected sepsis first arrives in the ED. March 2016.

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Reference ranges of paediatric heart rate and respiratory rate

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR) are THE major vital signs used in Advanced Paediatric Life Support ( APLS) guidance , sepsis guidelines , and Paediatric Early Warning Scores (e.g., The controversy around what is ‘normal’ in infants’ and children’s vitals was demonstrated in a 2011 systematic review by Fleming et al.

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SGEM #417: Everybody’s Changing…the Reference Ranges for Pediatric Vital Signs

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

We have been reading online about something called sepsis that can be deadly. Does he have sepsis?” That episode reviewed the 2011 Fleming et al systematic review for the normal ranges of HR and RR in children from birth to 18 years of age. It seems awfully high. Children’s vital signs can differ based on age.

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Grand Rounds Recap 8.16.23

Taming the SRU

to divert the plane). for detecting major injuries Abnormal CXR Rapid deceleration mechanism Presence of a distracting injury Chest wall tenderness Sternal/thoracic spine/scapular tenderness There are limited decision-making rules for thoracic spine imaging Yet a study (Inaba et al., 2015) reported a sensitivity of 98.9%

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The 80th Bubble wrap x DFTB MSc in PEM

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Reviewed by: Tasnim Ransome and Spyridon Karageorgos Article 3: Which Sepsis Scoring Tools Perform Best? Organ Dysfunction in Children With Blood Culture-Proven Sepsis: Comparative Performance of Four Scores in a National Cohort Study. Each patient was scored using the four sepsis tools. Schlapbach, L.J., Hagenbuch, N.,

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

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. Sepsis PCT may have some utility in guiding posttest probability for sepsis when the diagnosis is unclear.

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

EMDocs

Sepsis There has been much controversy over the last two decades around the various nuances of volume resuscitation in ED patients with suspected sepsis, much of which goes beyond the scope of this limited review. Int J Emerg Med 4, 58 (2011). 9 In terms of assessing volume status in general, Joseph et al. Andrews et al.