Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 10, 2024

These were presented as hazard ratios and included fever at presentation, previous transfusion ever, haemoglobinuria, malaria, sickle cell disease on enrolment, HIV, evidence of sepsis, malnutrition, shock, hypothermia, and dehydration. Sepsis indicators and malaria positivity did not modify the risk. Pediatr Crit Care Med.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

MAY 1, 2017

Pediatrics. Pediatrics. Check the bilirubin in any neonate you are working up for sepsis. Pediatrics. 2015; 135(5):948-53. Pediatrics. Pediatrics. Pediatrics. Pediatrics. Pediatrics in Review. Pediatrics. This will tell you: home or admission. Can I go Home Now?

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Jasmine, a hypothetical case Jasmine is a 5-year-old girl weighing 18kg admitted to PICU with suspected sepsis. A 2015 study published in the Lancet demonstrated a reduction in hyponatraemia by adopting an isotonic strategy compared with a hypotonic strategy. Pediatrics. A fluid shift, if you will. Crit Care Med. Nicholson, M.

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EB Medicine

JULY 8, 2019

Leakage from the staple line typically presents within the first week, but can present up to 35 days, usually with fevers, tachycardia, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting sepsis, or peritonitis. Some may present with isolated tachycardia while others may present with profound sepsis – tachycardia, hypotension, and fever. At 6 to 8 mL/kg.

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EB Medicine

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Jeff: And unlike past issues covering more common pathologies, like, say, sepsis, this month’s team reviewed much more literature than just the past 10 years. Thankfully, fatalities are declining, with just 565 in 2015. Thankfully, fatalities are declining, with just 565 in 2015. Address pain with analgesia.

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EB Medicine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

As some background, from 2006-2015 there were almost 66,000 reported snake exposures and 31 deaths from snake envenomation in the US. Jeff: Continuing right along, the next special population to discuss are pediatric patients. Andy Jagoda, who is also Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 21, 2023

Infection/sepsis? Outcomes in Pediatric Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Patients with Reduced Systolic Ventricular Function. European Journal of Pediatrics; 2016: 175; 1461-1462 Cox, GF. Diagnostic approaches to pediatric cardiomyopathy of metabolic genetic etiologies and their relation to therapy. Bad bronchiolitis ?

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Pediatric EM Morsels

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Hospitalization for travel-related illness are around 10% for both VFR and tourists (Leuthard 2015) Multiple studies have reported the most common travel infections in various countries. In the 1950’s travel accounted for 25 million international tourists. A study of swiss tourists found they compromised 53.4%

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Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

2015) reported a sensitivity of 98.9% 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.,

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EMDocs

JUNE 27, 2024

Pediatr Allergy Immunol Pulmonol. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2015 May;169(4):492-505. Epub 2015 Mar 30. smoke, high ozone levels, smog) Asthma/reactive airway disease (RAD) Diagnostic criteria 7,8 Respiratory symptoms +/- fever (at least 38.0 C or 100.4 mg/kg, max 4 mg per dose q20-30min) or hydromorphone (0.01-0.02

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Antibiotic Use for Common Infections in Pediatric Emergency Departments: A Narrative Review. This is true in life-threatening conditions such as sepsis. However, when children do not have features of sepsis, oral antibiotics are equally effective. Pediatr Infect Dis J. Karageorgos, S.; Hibberd, O.; Mullally, P.J.W.;

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Pediatric Education

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Doxycycline is the drug of choice for most patients of any age including the pediatric age group. Pediatr Infect Dis J. Indian J Pediatr. Imported rickettsial infections to the United Kingdom, 2015-2020. D’Alessandro, MD Professor of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Weil-Felix test is basically no longer used.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Because of this possible diagnosis, they were commenced on a macrolide antibiotic (azithromycin) in addition to treatment for neonatal sepsis +/- meningitis (ceftriaxone and acyclovir). Post-ET, careful monitoring is essential, particularly for secondary bacterial infections and sepsis. Pediatr Crit Care Med J. Pediatrics.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 14, 2024

This sort of sepsis would produce many of the common autopsy findings. ”) A 2016 study by Lambert et al in The Journal of Pediatrics shows how variable death investigations can be. Most SIDS babies have congested lungs, and 75% have a history of a recent cold, or an existing cold.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 16, 2025

Authors: Kyle Smiley (EM Resident, BAMC, San Antonio, TX) // Reviewed by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Welcome to Critical Kids, an emDOCs series focused on pediatric emergency medicine. Pediatric emergencies are challenging. Today we cover the Phoenix Sepsis Criteria. but PPV ranges from 25.1-39.5%

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 5, 2023

Vaccination: PCV13 (pneumococcal vaccination), meningococcal vaccines, and Hib conjugated vaccines are important to prevent life-threatening sepsis. Sickle cell patients also qualify to receive the annual influenza vaccine, since influenza virus infection predisposes to bacterial pneumonia and sepsis caused by S. Pneumococcal sepsis B.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 20, 2025

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. 43 found that IV fluids did not improve symptoms in headache patients in a single pediatric ED. Andrews et al.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Consider sepsis and treat it accordingly. BK virus infection, replication, and diseases in pediatric kidney transplantation. Pediatric nephrology , 22 (9), pp.1243-1250. Challenges in pediatric renal transplantation. Pediatric Nephrology , 34 (1), pp.31-43. CAKUT, catheterization requirement). Peruzzi, L.,

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

died of sepsis from an infected blister on his foot resulting from a tennis game at the White House. YouTube.com Published on Jan 27, 2015. Calvin Coolidge Often remembered for being taciturn, he had an effective career before as Massachusetts Governor. He succeeded to the Presidency upon Harding’s death by heart attack. Spring 2004.

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