Tiny Hot Patients And The PECARN Febrile Infant Rule
This episode of EM Pulse dives into one of the most stressful scenarios in the ED: the febrile infant in the first month of life. Traditionally, a fever in this age group has meant an ....
Category: Research
PECARN Infant Fever Update: 61-90 days
What happens when a febrile infant presents at 61 days old? Are they suddenly low risk for invasive bacterial infections? In this episode, we explore the gray zone of managing febrile infants aged 61–90 days ....
Political Violence
In this episode, we address the growing concern over political violence in the United States as the presidential election draws near. Political violence, defined as the intentional use of power and force to achieve political ....
Cardiac Arrest: Can Naloxone Help?
As emergency physicians, we are very familiar with giving naloxone to patients with concern for opioid overdose. Our EMS colleagues give naloxone all the time in the prehospital setting. We know it works well for ....
Hot Off The Press: PECARN Cervical Spine Injury Rule
In this episode we talk with Dr. Julie Leonard about the PECARN C-spine Rule that was just officially published! Dr. Leonard is the senior author of the study and walks us through the findings, why ....
PECARN Spotlight: Tools Validated
In this episode, we delve into a pivotal multi-center study validating the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) prediction rules for using CT imaging in children with blunt abdominal and minor head trauma. We ....
PHOENIX: A Better Way To Look At Peds Sepsis
If you practice in emergency medicine you probably live on the look out for sepsis. You likely follow the 2016 Sepsis-3 guidelines for adults which really was a paradigm shift from an infection-associated SIRS, to ....
Identifying abuse: the LCAST app
In March of this year, we published a Rebeat of one of our most powerful episodes, It Could Have Been Different. We took a deep dive into one of the most difficult aspects of our ....
Update: Human Trafficking
In the last episode, we replayed one of our most powerful episodes, Sold for a Chrysler 300. The episode featured Annika Huff sharing her story as a survivor of human trafficking, as well as recommendations ....
Rebeat – It could have been different
Introducing EM Pulse Podcast™ Rebeat! In our Rebeat episodes, we will revisit important past episodes. In this Rebeat, we discuss a challenging but important aspect of emergency medicine - identifying and addressing child abuse or ....