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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
We all know that kids are not little adults (seriously, how many times can we hear that?), but when we consider procedures it important to appreciate that there are differences. The most important being that EVERYTHING is just smaller, which…
Well, it is officially cold now and this fact was highlighted during my last shift in the Peds ED when two patients presented with parents concerned for their children having “low temperatures.” This begs the questions (and was actually later…
Minor Closed Head Injury – The 3 month old Caveat We are all accustomed to the issues that surround pediatric head injury. • Traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. • Prompt management of patients…
