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Communic8: Eight Universal Leadership Lessons from the Children’s Emergency Department

Don't Forget the Bubbles

The Childrens Emergency Department is a busy, challenging, and dynamic environment. Here are eight key leadership lessons inspired by real-life interactions and reflections from Paediatric Emergency Care 1. They involve a mixture of clinical, communication, and leadership traits. Use humour wisely and always gauge the context.

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Post-Tonsillectomy Hemorrhage: A Three-Pronged Approach

ACEP Now

A young woman, 13 days post-tonsillectomy, comes into your rural emergency department (ED) coughing up blood. Secondary hemorrhage occurs between days five and 14 post-operatively, peaking around days five to seven. and youre three hours from the nearest tertiary care center. CREDIT: Dr. P.

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Learning about human factors in the emergency department

Don't Forget the Bubbles

You’re in the paediatric emergency department, typing some notes for the child you’ve just discharged. Then the patient is rapidly moved to the operating theatre. Promoting hot debriefing in an emergency department. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. The western journal of emergency medicine.

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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Thoracentesis in the Emergency Department

Taming the SRU

Shortness of breath is one of the most common complaints presenting to emergency departments. A less common but more emergent scenario is the presentation of a patient to the emergency department with a large pleural effusion causing hypoxia and respiratory distress.

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Transfers In: Direct Admit vs Send To The ED

The Trauma Pro

The practice at many centers is to bring all transfer patients in through the emergency department. Bringing Patients To Your Emergency Department Patients can be reassessed to see if they meet any of your trauma activation criteria. Access to certain critical services may be more rapid from the emergency department.

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A First Look at Emergency Department Data for 2022

ACEP Now

Software attacks crippled operations in large hospital chains, and physical assaults on ED staff continued unabated. The preliminary results of the 2022 Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance performance measures survey found a significant deterioration in patient processing due to inpatient boarding. Maame Y, et al.

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Post-Tonsillectomy Hemorrhage: ReBaked Morsel

Pediatric EM Morsels

If bleeding, the only lab that is needed in the Emergency Department is a type and cross. If bleeding has completely stopped, most of these children still come into the hospital for observation so access will likely be necessary and helpful should patient have rebleed event. Well… sometimes it starts again.