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SGEM #425: Are You Ready for This? Pediatric Readiness of Emergency Departments

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National Assessment of Pediatric Readiness of US Emergency Departments during the Covid-19 Pandemic. July 2023 Date: Dec 11, 2023 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Rachel Hatcliffe is a pediatric emergency medicine attending at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Are general emergency departments ready to care for children?

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SGEM #427: I Want a Treatment with a Short Course…for Pediatric Urinary Tract Infections

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Ellie Hill is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. JAMA Pediatr.

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SGEM#452: I’m Still Standing – After the Allergy Challenge

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Full dose challenge of moderate, severe and unknown beta-lactam allergies in the emergency department. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Kirsty Challen is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. Case: It’s another day, another dollar in the emergency department (ED). AEM August 2024.

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Cetirizine Vs Diphenhydramine For the Treatment of Acute Urticaria in the ED

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antibiotics, NSAIDs) Acute urticaria with angioedema or anaphylaxis provided that urticaria was still present after initial treatment and alleviation of anaphylaxis symptoms. Exclusion: Presented with acute anaphylaxis, and their acute anaphylactic symptoms had not yet been treated. Patients were randomized in a 1:1 ratio.

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The PALACE Trial: Direct Oral PCN Challenge in Patients with Low-Risk PCN Allergy?

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Literature including patients with penicillin allergies also show longer, more complicated hospital courses. Patients with a history of anaphylaxis with any drug were excluded from this trial Open-label study (i.e. Background: Many patients report a vague history of penicillin allergy. randomization) as per protocol (i.e.

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Annals of B Pod: Anti-Xa Overdose

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HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS A female in her 30s arrives to the emergency department via emergency medical services. She initially agreed to be transported to the hospital by ambulance, but jumped from the moving vehicle and was subsequently struck and pinned under the fuselage for 10-15 minutes.

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SGEM#188: Icatibant Bites the Dust – For ACE-I Induced Angioedema

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Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anand Swaninathan is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at NYU/Bellevue Hospital in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anand Swaninathan is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at NYU/Bellevue Hospital in the Department of Emergency Medicine.