Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 3, 2023

This time we have our first group of colleagues from Birmingham Children’s Hospital Emergency Department. Family stress levels grew due to parental depression, unemployment, domestic violence, and increased alcohol consumption. With millions of journal articles published yearly, it is impossible to keep up.

Emergency Department 105

Emergency Department Hospitals Domestic Violence Pediatrics 105

Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 10, 2023

Descriptive Terms When describing injuries of the hand for documentation or referral purposes it is important to know the terminology that is widely in use in order to convey an accurate description to others. Hand dominance, mechanism of injury and vascular, neurological, and musculoskeletal status should all be evaluated and documented.

Fractures 52

Fractures Soft Tissue Injuries Emergency Department Operations 52

Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

24% experience severe domestic violence (the national average is 18%). This month, my reporting revealed that since 2018, the policy at Boston Children’s Hospital has been to provide kids a single two-hour assessment appointment. They are unemployed at double the rate of the general population.

Pediatrics 127

Pediatrics Domestic Violence Research Psychiatric 127

EMDocs

JANUARY 6, 2025

Based on available hospital resources, the patient is treated for septic shock secondary to pneumonia and an infected wound using broad-spectrum antibiotics and IV crystalloid fluids. Undernourished children presenting to an urban emergency department of a tertiary hospital in Tanzania: a prospective descriptive study. 2017;3:17067.

Infectious Diseases 72

Infectious Diseases CDC PPE Rapid Diagnostic Testing 72