Pediatric EM Morsels

JULY 21, 2023

We had just received a young child from EMS who was post-ictal with decreased mentation. Simpson 1991] No one system universally accepted like adult standard GCS [Simpson 1991, Jain 2022] “There is an evident need for valid standards of paediatric head injury severity, to permit comparisons of different methods of treatment.”

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Head Injuries Pediatrics Outcomes Shock 246

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JULY 17, 2018

Validation of the Pediatric NEXUS II Head Computed Tomography Decision Instrument for Selective Imaging of Pediatric Patients with Blunt Head Trauma. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine Case: You’re working in a small rural emergency department when a seven-year-old girl comes in by EMS with a head injury.

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Pediatrics Head Injuries Academics Emergency Department 52

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MAY 30, 2020

He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. Case: A 44-year-old male presents to your level 1 trauma center by EMS after a motor vehicle collision. You suspect abdomen and pelvic trauma and calculate his injury severity score (ISS) to be 22.

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RebelEM

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Limited to academic hospitals in one country, which may call generalizability into question. 11 Curiously, VAP in patients with traumatic head injury does not appear to increase mortality, but does increase ventilator time, ICU, and hospital length of stay. Mortality is variable by study, but ranges from 16-70%. El-Ebiary, M.;

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JULY 16, 2017

Your first patient was involved in an motor vehicle collision (MVC), and you pulled up the app to review the Canadian CT Head Injury Rule with your resident. The second patient is an elderly woman presenting via EMS after a ground level fall in c-spine precautions. AEM July 2017.

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ACEP Now

JULY 6, 2023

Emergency medicine (EM) has evolved over time and has long passed a crossroads where previously unachievable capabilities should be celebrated and shared. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network head injury clinical prediction rules are reliable in practice. Schonfeld D, et al. Arch Dis Child. 2014;99:427-31.

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 25, 2023

The differences observed in this study make it uncertain if these findings can be generalized outside of these academic settings. Am J Hematol. Am J Hematol. Further, when the analysis includes only sites that administer IN fentanyl, the association is even stronger.

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