We are back with Part 2 – Check out Part 1 here! It’s that time of year again – backpacks are packed, buses are rolling, and learners everywhere are heading back to school. Here at HipPEMcrates, we’re going back to school too – with a PEM twist. We’ve put together an ABCs of the Pediatric […]
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It’s that time of year again – backpacks are packed, buses are rolling, and learners everywhere are heading back to school. Here at HipPEMcrates, we’re going back to school too – with a PEM twist. We’ve put together an ABCs of the Pediatric ER, but this isn’t your average alphabet list. Each letter highlights a
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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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An infant is rushed back to your resuscitation bay, sats are dropping, the triage nurse knew she needed to bring him right back before even getting a history. In those first crucial moments in the bay, your differential is broad and your heart rate might be ticking up higher than your patient’s. A bit of
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🧠 The Case A 5-month-old infant presents to the ED with: Initial Workup: “The blood drawn looked… brownish.” 🩸 The Turn: Chocolate Blood + Unexpected Hypoxia Blood gas reveals a methemoglobin level of 31.6%(normal is <1.5%) You immediately recognize this as methemoglobinemia—a condition where hemoglobin is oxidized (Fe²⁺ ➝ Fe³⁺) and can no longer carry
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This RSV season was different. Not because RSV disappeared—it didn’t. Not because the ED was quiet—it wasn’t. But for the first time, we had tools to protect babies before they got sick. And based on newly published CDC data, those tools worked. 📉 What Changed This Year? The CDC compared hospitalization data for kids <5
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I think it would be worthwhile for the fellows to read articles from the 1990s. There are a host of articles that will give fellows a sense of PEM history and how things have changed through the creation of solid evidence. It’s these types of articles that fellows can read and hopefully will say –
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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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