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Sickle Cell Disease and Stroke

Pediatric EM Morsels

Unfortunately, it can cause so many other complications – Sepsis , acute chest syndrome , and hepatopathy. Impact of the New American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Definition of Stroke on the Results of the Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis Trial.

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The Current Status of Continuous-Seizure Management

ACEP Now

35-year-old man presents by EMS with seizures. According to family at the scene, he has a history of seizures but has not been taking his medication recently. On arrival, he is obtunded, foaming at the mouth, and exhibiting generalized tonic-clonic seizure activity. Clinical Question ยป How should status epilepticus be diagnosed?

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 079 | Hyponatraemia โ€“ management

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Hopefully what follows will provide enough broad brush strokes to get you through a night on call or even worse a viva. They have a seizure on arrival and a Na comes back at 105. In this scenario they are seizing because of the low Na and rapid increase of the Na is needed to stop the seizure.

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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: The Who, What, Where, When and Why of Lumbar Punctures

Taming the SRU

The UK joint specialist societies guideline on the diagnosis and management of acute meningitis and meningococcal sepsis in immunocompetent adults. As may be seen in the table below, there are several themes as well a range of stringency. C., & Solomon, T. The Journal of infection , 72 (4), 405โ€“438. van de Beek, D., Cabellos, C.,

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Pediatric Status Epilepticus

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Definition of status epilepticus:Continuous seizure activity of 5 minutes or greater โ€“ OR โ€“ Recurrent activity without recovery between intervals. This definition includes clinically apparent seizures as well as those seen only on EEG.) During a seizure, GABA receptors in the neuronโ€™s membrane are internalized and destroyed.

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Altered Mental Status in Children

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

For altered adults, use AEIOU TIPS (Alcohol-Epilepsy-Insulin-Overdose-Uremia-Trauma-Infection-Psychosis-Stroke). meningoencephalitis, overwhelming alternate source of sepsis) T โ€“ Toxins (e.g. sludge phenomenon, secondary sepsis, hypoglycemia from supply-demand mismatch) S โ€“ Seizure (e.g. V โ€“ Vascular (e.g.

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Big Labs, Little People

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Less common causes of troponemia are: Kawasaki disease, pediatric stroke, or neuromuscular disease. Lactate A sick child with sepsis syndrome? In the adult literature, we know that a lactate level above 4 mmol/L in patients with severe sepsis was associated with the need for critical care. The short answer โ€“ yes.