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Approach to Shock

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Cardiogenic Shock: Act Use point-of-care cardiac ultrasound : Good Squeeze? It’s seen easily enough on point of care ultrasound. Tamponade: if any sign of shock, pericardiocentesis, preferentially ultrasound-guided. Is this in an infarction, an infection, a poisoning? You will see cool, mottled extremities.

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Grand Rounds Recap 4.19.23

Taming the SRU

Subsequent exposure results in a T-cell mediated response (Type IV hypersensitivity reaction) Plants: Toxicodendron species (poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac) Also present in foods, including pistachio, cashew, and mango.

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Episode 20 - Emergency Department Management of North American Snake Envenomations

EB Medicine

Nachi: And don’t forget our peer reviewers this month, Dr. Daniel Sessions, a medical toxicologist working at the South Texas Poison Center, and our very own editor-in-chief, Dr. Andy Jagoda, who is also Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Note that antivenom will NOT reverse anaphylaxis on its own.