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Early Analgesia for Children With Acute Abdominal Pain

Early Analgesia for Children With Acute Abdominal Pain Green R. Pediatrics 2005

Pemfellows.blogspot.com – Under Renovation

Hot Seat Readers, The Hot Seat will be going on a summer vacation for renovation and upgrading.  We will be back with more cases, a different layout and URL, and other PEM learning tools.    Here’s what we’ve done over the last few years: Pageviews: Over 13,000 40 Hot Seat Cases 26 Different attendings on […]

Current approach to pediatric syncope

Johnsrude, C. L. (2000). Pediatric cardiology. Abstract Conclusions: This review emphasizes neurally mediated syncope, but other etiologies are reviewed to complete the spectrum encountered by pediatric cardiologists. Some clues are provided to distinguish the more common and benign forms of syncope from those due to significant underlying heart disease.

Syncope in pediatric patients presenting to an emergency department

Massin, M. M., Bourguignont, A., Coremans, C., Comté, L., Lepage, P., & Gérard, P. (2004). The Journal of pediatrics. Abstract Conclusions: Syncope in children can result from a wide variety of causes. Consequently, an evaluation that fails to approach this problem in a goal-directed fashion proves to be very expensive, time-consuming, and frustrating to all […]

Treatment of community-onset, childhood convulsive status epilepticus: a prospective, population-based study

Chin, R. F., Neville, B. G., Peckham, C., Wade, A., Bedford, H., & Scott, R. C. (2008). The Lancet Neurology. Abstract Conclusions: These data add to the debate on optimum emergency treatment of childhood CSE and suggest that the current guidelines could be updated.