Dealing with Hypothermia: A Cold Child on a Hot Day
The Case You and your team are called to the resuscitation bay for a poorly responsive young child on a hot and muggy day. Low and behold his rectal temperature…
End Tidal CO2: The Drummer of the Vital Sign Band
If you are at all like me, End-Tidal CO2 (ETCO2) was an oft-forgotten vital sign hanging out on the monitor. Like Ringo in The Beatles, it was the vital sign…
Education Conference from 8/8/2019
Plastics Pearls 4 PEM Physicians from Plastic Surgeon Dr. Fernando Ovalle. Destroying the Dogma Lidocaine with epinephrine can be used on the fingers, toes, and the nose and down below. Advising…
Education Conferences From 8/1/2019
PEM/Radiology Conference with Dr. Stratton and Dr. Jones Case: A school-aged boy with right afferent pupil defect and gait instability.Let’s go back to basics:What the heck is an Afferent Pupillary…