Category 2011 Morsels

“Happy New Year — Now don’t hurt yourself!”

As the life cycle of another year begins again, we prepare to reflect on the past and celebrate the future… and those of us working in the emergency departments prepare ourselves for the results of exuberance. Certainly alcohol-related injuries will…

Pierre Robin Sequence

Micrognathia

  Children with respiratory distress can make even the most confident physician wish that the shift had ended a little sooner. Children with airway anomalies will make that already tight sphincter tone rise to epic levels. One of the most…

Pediatric Pulmonary Contusion

Regardless of where you work, you will see injured children. Unintentional injuries far exceed all other causes of Mortality in the pediatric population. Certainly the #1 cause of death after blunt trauma in pediatric patients is Head Injury… but did…

Neonatal HSV

  Neonatal HSV is a rare condition, but one that results in devastating Morbidity and Mortality; therefore, it is imperative that we keep it on our radar and stay vigilant for it! Neonatal HSV Neonatal HSV is a rare disease…

MDI vs Nebulizer for Asthma Exacerbation

Oh, the sound of nebulized beta-agonists… it is like … fingers nails on a chalk board to me! Ok, I might be a bit of a vigilante, going exam room to exam room trying to eliminate albuterol nebs… but, here’s…

Clavicle Fractures

In the US, we love to have Turkey on Thanksgiving… and on the next day (or maybe 2 days) we love to make a wish as we snap the poor turkey’s clavicles. In the ED, we encounter clavicle fractures all…

Heliox – Part of the Kitchen Sick

From the first party where we had balloons that floated, I think we have all had a fascination with the most Noble of the Noble Gases – Helium! While it is fun to make your kids think that you are…