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Glasgow Coma Scale in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

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. Consider other indicators of need for airway management, such as gag reflex.

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2024 Emergency Medicine Research Highlights: Forced Air, Sepsis, and More

ACEP Now

Finally, in what serves as a bit of idle academic curiosity, a re-examination of the rate of intracranial hemorrhage after thrombolysis found starkly different statistics than those typically used in discussions with patients. Effect of noninvasive airway management of comatose patients with acute poisoning: a randomized clinical trial.

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