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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. The skills needed to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people are multifaceted and constantly evolving. They involve a mixture of clinical, communication, and leadership traits. Its the bridge that connects us all.

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Getting Triggered By Errors in the Emergency Department

EM Literature of Note

The emergency department is a place of risk and errors. In modern parlance, “diagnostic errors” become “missed opportunities for diagnosis” (MODs), and well-meaning researchers are devising further methods to shine bright lights upon our inadequacies. A sore shoulder that is necrotizing fasciitis.

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SGEM#458: Hurt So Good –Ketamine Can Make the Hurt so Good – If used as an Adjunct to Opioids for Acute Pain in the Emergency Department

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

He is the Vice Chair of the Emergency Department and Program Director of the EM residency program at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, NY, the safety net hospital for Nassau County. It has become a favourite medication in emergency departments for procedural sedation as well as a useful behavioural takedown medication.

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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. Promoting hot debriefing in an emergency department. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. Emergency Medicine Residents Experience Acute Stress While Working in the Emergency Department.

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Putting Clinical Gestalt to Work in the Emergency Department

ACEP Now

On a busy day shift in the emergency department, our seasoned triage nurse comes to me after I finish caring for a hallway patient, “Hey, can you come see this guy in the triage room? This is the essence of emergency medicine. 4 However, emergency physicians rely on gestalt to predict outcomes well.

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Glasgow Coma Scale in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

Motor Fingernail bed pressure with a pencil first If flexion outcome, then apply painful stimulus to neck or head (trapezius or supraorbital notch) to look for localization Spinal reflex can result in a falsely elevated score if lower extremity pain induced Verbal Orientated- Able to answer all questions. A practical scale. PMID: 4136544.

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The DIMPLES study

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Children presenting with diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis to Emergency Departments during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK and Ireland: an international retrospective observational study. During the COVID-19 pandemic , we noticed a change in the type of patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Arch Dis Child.