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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

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Leyenaar; Pediatric Mental Health Boarding. Pediatrics October 2020; 146 (4): e20201174. Zima; Follow-up After Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Visits. Pediatrics March 2023; 151 (3): e2022057383. Boarding of Mentally Ill Patients in Emergency Departments: American Psychiatric Association Resource Document.

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PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 4: Safe prehospital transport

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We’re defining “protocol” here as a written document that provides oversight from the medical director about how to assess and treat patients. If you have restraints in your ambulance, are those restraints appropriately sized for pediatric patients? Was the documentation complete? What type of restraint was used?

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PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 3: Pharmacologic Management

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Document what you gave and why, as well as the impact. Pediatric Agitation in the Emergency Department: A Survey of Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinators. Acad Pediatr. Let’s look at management based on etiology: As always follow local procedures and recommendations. Summary All right, so that’s it for this episode.

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PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 5: The Boarded ED Patient

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Pediatric Mental Health Specifically within the pediatric population, there has been a steady rise in mental health concerns and suicide in children. As these sites face an increase in pediatric mental health visits, more efforts need to be directed at preparing community EDs to be pediatric ready.

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PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 2: Non-Pharmacologic Management

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Restraints should not be applied indefinitely, and multiple reevaluations should be done to determine when it is safe to remove restraints.

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The resurgence of vaccine preventable infections: Measles and Pertussis

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Manual for the laboratory diagnosis of measles and rubella infection Geneva: WHO Documents Production Services, 2007 Available from: [link] [Accessed 4 Oct 2024] Government of the United Kingdom. JOINT committee on vaccination and immunisation code of practice June. Pediatric vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pediatrics.