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But Can You Just PO?

Taming the SRU

This article serves to briefly discuss IV fluids administration in the ED and the instances where they are not indicated. Other conditions that lead to intravascular fluid depletion include but are not limited to starvation/dehydration, vomiting, diarrhea, burns/trauma, hyperglycemia, and hemorrhage.

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Medical Malpractice Insights: A Rare Presentation – Groin pain? Nec fasc? Diabetes? Appendicitis?

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Sepsis is diagnosed and antibiotics started for the first time. High level amputation is considered, but she dies of sepsis and multiorgan failure on hospital day 7. She had no persistent vomiting, was not dehydrated and had no fever. Delay in administration of antibiotics. It reveals a 7.5

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Maintenance Fluids in Critical Illness

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Currently, the administration of water for the paediatric population is based on the Holliday-Segar formula (100ml/kg/day for the first 10kg of weight, 50ml/kg/day for the second 10kg of weight and 20ml/kg/day for weight over 20kg). Jasmine, a hypothetical case Jasmine is a 5-year-old girl weighing 18kg admitted to PICU with suspected sepsis.

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Neonatal Jaundice

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

They may get a little dehydrated, especially if mother’s milk is late to come in. Also, newborns have a double-whammy administrative load. Home care The neonate who is safe to go home is well appearing, and not dehydrated. Most babies with hyperbilirubinemia are dehydrated, which just exacerbates the problem. Pediatrics.

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Amiodarone Versus Digoxin for Acute Rate Control of Atrial Fibrillation in the Emergency Department

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Sepsis, hyperthyroidism, dehydration, heart failure, ACS, etc). Unfortunately, the exact dose and time of administration of first line medications was not reported before a second line medication was given. Clinical Bottom Line: Numerically, amiodarone may be a better medication for rate and rhythm control.

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Managing a patient with decompensated liver cirrhosis

Mind The Bleep

Administration of human albumin solution (HAS) in SBP reduces the incidence of renal failure by 72% and mortality by 47%. In those who are grossly obese, it may be better to employ a more cautious approach with regard to albumin administration. The number needed to treat to prevent one death is around 5 in SBP. On Day 3 (i.e.

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Bubble Wrap PLUS – January 2024

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Reviews and opinion articles Use of POCUS for the assessment of dehydration in pediatric patients-a narrative review. 2023 Dec 12 Pediatric Sepsis Diagnosis, Management, and Sub-phenotypes. Late surfactant administration after 48 hours of age in preterm neonates with respiratory insufficiency: a systematic review and meta-analysis.