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

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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. Time to change the reference ranges of children’s physiological observations in emergency care? Reference: Brennan L et al. It seems awfully high.

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SGEM#375: Only One versus Two-Dose Dexamethasone for Mild to Moderate Pediatric Asthma Exacerbations

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Single-dose dexamethasone is not inferior to 2 doses in mild to moderate pediatric asthma exacerbations in the emergency department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2022 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Harrison Hayward is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellow at Children’s National Hospital. Pediatr Emerg Care. Pediatr Emerg Care.

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Reference ranges of paediatric heart rate and respiratory rate

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This prospective cohort study included patients between 0-16 years old, who presented to one of four NHS hospital sites in Greater Manchester (a large metropolitan area in the North of England), consisting of an Urgent Care Centre and three Emergency Departments. Yes Was the outcome accurately measured to minimize bias?

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SGEM#263: Please Stop, Prescribing – Antibiotics for Viral Acute Respiratory Infections

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A Multifaceted Intervention Improves Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infection for Adults and Children in Emergency Department and Urgent Care Settings. A Multifaceted Intervention Improves Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infection for Adults and Children in Emergency Department and Urgent Care Settings.

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Friday Reflection #26: General Internal Medicine in the Time of COVID

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As our hospital filled up, I was left doing video visits with my patients (visits that I found unrewarding), educational sessions about COVID for doctors from other specialties, and urgent care shifts to see the patients who needed to be seen in person. MJ was the first person I diagnosed, definitively, with COVID.