EMDocs

JANUARY 11, 2025

2, 8-10, 14 The clinical symptoms range from vague abdominal pain to florid septic shock and peritonitis secondary to bowel perforation. Operative management is necessary for signs of peritonitis, evidence of perforation, extensive bowel involvement >40cm, or after failed medical management.

EMS 98

EMS Sepsis Shock Fluid Resuscitation 98

Pediatric EM Morsels

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Both have a range of detection limits, which can be greatly dependent on operator. You should consider ordering this in all febrile children with fever <30 days from travel to a malaria-endemic country (Forgie 2022) Thick smears are 10 x more sensitive for malaria then thin smears, but thin smears are used to identify species.

Seizures 281

Seizures Pediatrics CDC Infectious Diseases 281

ALiEM

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We did not use clonidine, despite its known alpha agonist utility in opioid withdrawal, due to the undifferentiated nature of our patients receiving the pathways, not wanting to give an antihypertensive agent to patients who sometimes are experiencing shock and other critical illness. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2023;29(6):470-476.

Emergency Department 64

Emergency Department Operations Psychiatric EMS 64

EB Medicine

JULY 8, 2019

Nachi: Unfortunately this procedure is associated with a relatively high re-operation rate – one study found 20% of patients required removal or revision. Jeff: Even more shockingly, some series showed a 52% repeat operation rate. These patients often require emergent operative intervention.

Emergency Department 40

Emergency Department Sepsis Operations Dehydration 40

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JUNE 1, 2017

The infant in shock after a ‘cold’: myocarditis Beware of the poor feeding, tachycardic, ill appearing infant who “has a cold” because everyone else around him has a ‘cold’. Repeated use causes multiple psychiatric, personality, and neurologic changes. Fontan Operation and the Single Ventricle. Congenit Heart Dis. 2007; 2:2-11.

Pediatrics 52

Pediatrics EKG/ECG Wellness Seizures 52

EB Medicine

AUGUST 1, 2018

Jeff: There are a shocking 22 million past-month users of marijuana in the US, followed by pain relievers at 3.8 Jeff: In terms of psychiatric effects, several low-to-moderate quality studies have shown statistically significant associations between psychosis and self-reported cannabis use. million, and cocaine at 1.9

Seizures 40

Seizures Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Administration Dehydration 40