By the end of this session you should be able to:
Fever investigation and management
This week we will be presenting 2 paediatric simulation scenarios for your pleasure. These will be insitu (ie in the department) so meet in the usual teaching room for a briefing.
We want to focus on leadership and teamwork so check out this fantastic talk by Cliff Reid on how to be a bad arse team leader
Have a read through the following links and guidelines as well and you may get a few hints of what is coming up...
See you all Tuesday
By the end of this session, you will be expected to:
-Understand the common causes of abdominal pain in various age ranges.
-Recognise the signs and symptoms of more serious abdominal pain presentations.
-Reflect on the utilisation of investigations vs observation in paediatric abdominal pain.
Classic presentations vs reality
Paediatric Abdominal Emergencies
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
Here is an excellent educational website from the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne which gives an excellent overview of the pathophysiology of paediatric fractures
While rare, the manifestations of cardiac disease in the paediatric population can be sudden, atypical and often require immediate intervention from the Emergency Physician.
In this session we will look at:
As this is not stuff we come across every day, please take some time to look at the pre-readings in preparation for this session
From the 'happy wheezer' to the peri-arrest status asthmaticus, the breathless child requires rapid and focused evaluation to ensure further deterioration does not occur.
In this session we will cover:
Diagnosing and Managing Asthma in Children
Starship guidelines for:
Excellent knowledge and skills shown last tuesday at the first of our 2 airway skills sessions.
Thanks again to Andy and all the course facilitators for their input.
Next week will see you apply these skills to some clinical scenarios so if you feel there are some airway areas that are still a bit unclear...take this week to review Andy's course material...talk to your local frindly SMO on the floor...ask questions...and own the airway!!!
See you next tuesday!
Here's a link to the course material
Cardiac arrests associated with pulseless electrical activity...have traditionally been perceived as having very poor outcomes.
However a number of reversible causes can quickly be identified by the skilled Emergency Physician and, when combined with immaculate basic CPR can facilitate improved morbidity and mortality.
Have a read through the following articles and then consider the algorithm discussed in the papers below which utilises ECG evaluation combined with bedside US.
A potential game-changer....
INTRODUCTORY
INTERMEDIATE
(If you can’t cope with the banter…there’s a nice written summary)
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Click on the links below for pre-reading:
INTRODUCTORY
INTERMEDIATE
Deal- Evaluation and Management of Bradydysrhythmias- EM Parct 2013
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