PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Transcript Note: This transcript was partially completed with the use of the Descript AI Welcome to PEMCurrents, the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast. As always, I’m your host, Brad Sobolewski, and today we’re focusing on a pathogen that has been making waves in pediatric emergency departments across the country.

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Pediatrics Military CDC Hospitals 94

ACEP Now

APRIL 2, 2024

An 18-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) with symptoms of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. 1 In severe cases altered mental status, seizures, coma, or even death have been observed. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Toxicology Rep. 2019;6:656-65. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep.

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Poisoning Administration Documentation/Coding Urgent Care 40

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

AUGUST 2, 2016

Act V, scene I [Text from Folger Shakespeare Library] [Audio recording of Dramatic Reading; Chapter Vox] [Video recording of Act V, scene1] Most deaths that are brought to, or occur in, an emergency department will require, at least, discussion with the local Coroner or Medical Examiner. No "practice procedures" should be done.

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Documentation/Coding Forensics CDC Fractures 40

Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

14-year-old Katy presents to the paediatric Emergency Department (ED), alone, complaining of suicidal ideation. A 2022 CDC report showed an overall trend of increasing mental health-related ED visits for children and young people aged 0-17 from 2019 to 2022. Acad Emerg Med. Ann Emerg Med. What is the problem?

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Psychiatric Sexual Assault Emergency Department Pediatrics 119

PEMBlog

JULY 10, 2024

And, since we know from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey that many American teens are having sex with less than optimal condom use and infrequent STI testing, pediatricians everywhere should be thinking more about acquired syphilis infection, not just congenital syphilis. Thank you, Jen. Emily, thank you very much.

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Pediatrics CDC Seizures Emergency Department 52

EMDocs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Headache red-flag characteristics include neurological symptoms, thunderclap nature, syncope, trauma, immunocompromised, coagulopathy, fever, rash, seizure, nuchal rigidity, altered mental status, pregnancy, temporal tenderness, jaw claudication, and cancer history. J Emerg Med. Acad Emerg Med. J Emerg Med. Ann Emerg Med.

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Emergency Department Fractures Burns EMS 105

PulmCCM

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Cefepime crosses the blood-brain barrier, and dozens of case reports have associated the drug with seizures, encephalopathy, delirium, and coma, with a possibly increased incidence of neurologic adverse effects among patients with renal failure or sepsis. Paxlovid also did not reduce symptoms of Covid-19 in that trial.

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Hospitals COPD Emergency Department CDC 98