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PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 4: Safe prehospital transport

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:51 — 21.8MB) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Safe prehospital transport of the agitated child In episode 1 of this series, we discussed differentiating organic vs psychiatric causes of agitation in children. In today’s episode, we’re taking our show on the road.

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

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First: Are you sure it was syncope, and not SEIZURE? Conversely , frequently syncope has a short episode of tonic-clonic activity that mimics seizure. Academic Emergency Medicine., Academic Emergency Medicine, 2003 Volume 10, Number 5 539-540. Thiruganasambandamoorthy, V., Sivilotti, M., Mukarram, M., Baumann, B.

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Grand Rounds Recap 5.3.23

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BROADSTOCK Suicidal Ideation & Behavior with Concomitant Substance-Use Difficult to distinguish suicidal ideation/behavior from primary decompensated psychiatric disease versus substance-induced in the ED Statement of Belief Aka pink slip, 72 hour hold, involuntary civil commitment, etc.