One of my favorite parts about being in PEM is the constant sharing of good content – studies, FOAM posts, conferences, podcasts, interesting cases, practice-changing papers, and the occasional “you need to read this before your next shift” text message. A lot of the best educational pearls I come across don’t start with a formal […]
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There’s no shortage of new studies competing for your attention, but let’s be honest – most of us don’t have the time (or patience) to sift through it all. One of the ways I keep up is by writing for JournalFeed, where the goal is to distill new research into what actually matters at the
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Ahh, the summer – BBQs, the beach, and the lull before respiratory season. Wait, what? My patient in room 3 has COVID? And the parents of the kid in room 8? Oh no, oh no! It can’t be! This isn’t supposed to happen. What is going on with the recent bump in COVID? Is it
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Spoon Feed In a cohort of 102 children receiving intranasal midazolam in the ED for a laceration repair, nearly half exhibited extreme procedural anxiety. IN midazolam isn’t a silver bullet for procedural anxietyThis cross-sectional study examined the incidence of extreme procedural anxiety despite intranasal midazolam (INM) administration in children undergoing laceration repair and identified predictors of
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Spoon Feed In children aged 12 to 16 years with traumatic injury, admission to a pediatric trauma center was not associated with improved hospital mortality compared to admission to an adult trauma center. Are adolescents just big kids? Or small adults?While evidence has shown that organized trauma systems can reduce mortality and morbidity in injured children,
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Spoon Feed In a large cohort of children, the risk of intraabdominal injury (IAI) with one or two PECARN variables is low, with GCS <14 at highest risk. Refining CT use in pediatric blunt torso traumaA 2013 PECARN study derived a clinical prediction rule to identify children with blunt torso trauma who are at very low
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Spoon Feed The Pneumonia Risk Score (PRS) outperformed the CARPE DIEM model in predicting pediatric radiographic pneumonia, but neither model outperformed clinical judgment. Can we predict pediatric pneumonia without a chest x-ray?This prospective validation study evaluated the performance of two clinical prediction models – Pneumonia Risk Score (PRS) and CARPE DIEM – in identifying radiographic pneumonia
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