pediatrics

This week’s Journal Feed Wrap-up gives you new evidence on predictors of a difficult airway, US evaluation of tamponade, PECARN and pediatric fever, and concurrent bronchiolitis and UTI in pediatric patients.

Today Sean Fox covers the neonate with bloody stool on Pediatric EM Morsels.

Not all head trauma is minor.
Not all minor head trauma is clinically significant.

How can we sort out the overtly ok from the sneakily serious?

Dogma often dictates routine care.
There are times when we have to attend to paradigm shifts.
An easy way to save lives? Just say no to (these) drugs

What do you get when you take a pediatric patient and add mechanical ventilation? Probably a lot of anxiety… This post from Joe Ravera and Skyler Lentz will help you conquer mechanical ventilation in pediatric patients.

In Part One of this two-part series, we discussed re-emerging infectious threats that may creep into our EDs initially unnoticed.
We continue from Part One with the rest of the dreaded thirteen, from varicella through meningococcus

Now let us take a moment to ponder the issues that can arise when an artery finds its origin incorrectly in an adjacent structure – Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery (ALCAPA).