A monthly guide to the best new Pediatric Emergency Medicine FOAM Welcome to the first HipPEMcrates FOAM Roundup! One of the greatest strengths of Pediatric Emergency Medicine is the community of educators who freely share their expertise through blogs, podcasts, cases, infographics, and other educational resources. The challenge is finding the time to keep up […]
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Be sure to check out Part 1: Music To My Ears…Or Is it? When it comes to croup, the clinical nuance lies in recognizing severity: stridor at rest, retractions, agitation, hypoxia, and fatigue. All children with croup should receive a steroid, namely oral dexamethasone. Treat seven to thirteen children with a single dose of dexamethasone,
Anyone who’s spent more than a handful of shifts in the Pediatric Emergency Department can easily recognize that unmistakable, seal-like barking cough from across the unit. Cue the music! Croup is bread-and-butter pediatric emergency medicine: high-yield, high-frequency, and often straightforward. And yet, these kids demand our respect every single time…cause when they’re sick, they’re really
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Pediatric respiratory complaints are some of the most common presentations we see in the emergency department. After recognizing respiratory distress, which is sometimes challenging in a young child who might be scared or upset, the next challenge is in deciding what disease process we’re dealing with and how aggressively we need to treat it. During
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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
A is for Airway, but also… Read More »
🧠 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
So… Did the RSV Vaccine Actually Help This Year? Read More »
