Under Pressure: A podcast on the acute management of elevated ICP
Listen to this episode of PEM Currents, the Pediatric Emergency Medicine podcast and learn more about the management of elevated intracranial pressure.
Listen to this episode of PEM Currents, the Pediatric Emergency Medicine podcast and learn more about the management of elevated intracranial pressure.
This edition of Why We Do What We Do focuses on the use of hypertonic saline to treat elevated intracranial pressure in children.
Here are some thoughts on the utility of facial X-Rays and a link to a good review.
The 4th article in the AAP NCE top 10 of 2016 is a secondary analysis of that PECAN TBI paper everyone has been talking about.
This entry in the PEMBlog Summer Reading List is a seminal paper detailing a decision rule to evaluate children at low risk for serious injury in blunt abdominal trauma.
Brief thoughts on the recently released AAP Policy Statement on the management of pediatric trauma.
Do injured children need a digital rectal exam? Read on to learn about the evidence behind what is often a stressful and traumatic exam technique for children.
Children with closed head injury who are reported as acting abnormally by their guardian, with no other concerning findings are low risk for clinically important TBI.
This post details clinical predictors associated with intraabdominal injury as well as a suggested evaluation pathway for children with blunt abdominal trauma.
Undoubtedly you will see a child with a "near drowning" if you work in the ED during the summer. Most children are fine, even those that received some back blows, mouth to mouth or some semblance of bystander rescue maneuvers. Asymptomatic children (no respiratory symptoms) [...]