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SGEM #417: Everybody’s Changing…the Reference Ranges for Pediatric Vital Signs

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Case: A 5-year-old boy presents to the emergency department (ED) with his parents for fever and fatigue. Background: We have looked at pediatric vital signs on the SGEM back in 2014 with PedEM superhero Dr. Anthony Crocco ( SGEM#98 ). He has had three days of high fevers at home. It seems awfully high. Does he have sepsis?”

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Calcium in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

NAEMSP

However, evidence emerged in the 1980’s demonstrating that calcium chloride had no effect on return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) rates, and in fact could be detrimental (Landry, Foran, & Koyfman, 2014). 2014, August). Annals of Emergency Medicine, 64 (2), 187-189. Kay, J., & Blalock, A. Panchal, A.,

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Resident Journal Review: Available Evidence Regarding Targeted Temperature Management (TTM)

AAEM RSA

For both groups, mean time to basic life support was determined to be one-minute, advanced life support started at 10 minutes, and time to ROSC at 25 minutes. The trial was conducted in 25 ICUs in France between 2014 and 2018. Time to TTM was statistically significantly shorter in the IC group (2.2

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From the President’s Desk: HEMS in Cork

Irish College of Paramedics

Crewing Models: There are varying models of pre-hospital care ranging from paramedic provision of care through the mix of First Aid (Tanigawa and Tanaka 2006) Basic Life Support (BLS), immediate care, Advanced Life Support (ALS) and the many associated specialist paramedicine grades. 2014), BLS (Sanghavi et al.