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A New Tool to Help Screen for Sepsis in Kids?

Taming the SRU

Development of a New Screening Tool for Pediatric Septic Shock. Ann Emerg Med 2024; Big Picture Current screening tools for pediatric septic shock and sepsis are highly specific but lack sensitivity. A Brief Sepsis Overview Sepsis is a topic that is ever changing in the literature.

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Pediatric Septic Shock

EB Medicine

In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD, interviews Ara Festekjian, MD, one of the authors of the November 2022 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice article on Pediatric Septic Shock in the Emergency Department Introduction: How common is sepsis in kids and what is the mortality rate in the US?

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SGEM #417: Everybody’s Changing…the Reference Ranges for Pediatric Vital Signs

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Vicki Currie is a paediatric emergency medicine registrar in the West Midlands in the United Kingdom. She is also a member […] The post SGEM #417: Everybody’s Changing…the Reference Ranges for Pediatric Vital Signs first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Does he have sepsis?” It seems awfully high.

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Cuffed Endotracheal Tubes for Children: ReBaked Morsel

Pediatric EM Morsels

A single cadaveric study from the 1950s showed that the pediatric subglottic space approximated a circular funnel with the narrowest portion at the cricoid level This study included only 15 children aged 4 months–14 years But why was this a problem? Front Pediatr. Acad Emerg Med. Acad Emerg Med. West J Emerg Med.

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Travel-Related Illnesses in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

Pediatric patients with recent travel and fever of unknown origin should be considered for admission if malaria is a possible diagnosis. Fever in the Returned Pediatric Traveler. Glob Pediatr Health. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care. Am J Emerg Med. References Abdel-Haq N, Asmar BI. 2021 May; 8:1-16.

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Reference ranges of paediatric heart rate and respiratory rate

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR) are THE major vital signs used in Advanced Paediatric Life Support ( APLS) guidance , sepsis guidelines , and Paediatric Early Warning Scores (e.g., Identify the percentage of children whose heart or respiratory rate would exceed the “severe” cut-off from the UK Sepsis Trust and NICE guidelines.

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Journal Feed Weekly Wrap-Up

EMDocs

Post-Vaccination Fever in Infants Spoon Feed Serious bacterial infections were exceedingly rare in this study of recently immunized infants 6-12 weeks presenting to the emergency department with a fever. Source Serious bacterial infection risk in recently immunized febrile infants in the emergency department. 2024.03.025.