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Alcoholic patient presented with unexplained confusion and slurred speech
What’s this finding called?
Diagnosis ?
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We’ve continually looked at & revised our response to reference ranges over time - think neonatal blood glucose.
Why won’t we do this for vital signs?
Thanks @DFTBubbles for covering our recent paper on challenging the status quo
dontforgetthebubbles.com/ref… HT @spiroskarageo
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Impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on Mental Health Visits in Pediatric Primary Care dlvr.it/ScPbGQ
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Got anxious adolescents in the ED? (try saying that fast 10 times). You could try virtual reality.
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The risk of gender-based violence and harmful practices has risen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Watch season two of ‘Coping with COVID-19’ to see how teen girls are standing up for their rights. uni.cf/3loib2V
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Developed by IFEM PEMSIG, the Standards of Care for Children in Emergency Departments assists hospitals around the world define minimum standards of care for children in the ED.
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A high temperature appears to be being defined as 37.8 - is this a specific ‘adult’ thing that paediatricians may miss in our focus on 38.0?
#COVID19
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If the number of reported confirmed cases of #COVID19 continues to slow down, the 2% fatality rate people have been quoting will appear to rise. But it will be a statistical illusion. Let me explain why.... 1/
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Almost 1/3 of kids with distal radius fractures receive procedural sedation with fracture reduction unnecessarily according to this new JAMA study. In kids <10y/o, 20 degrees angulation even with moderate displacement is acceptable & remodels on it's own
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Help me to get my new personalized @tecnifibre Carboflex racket by retweeting this! #Carboflex #FightSmart – at Manhattan, NY
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You are not defined by your job or how you are performing at work today. You are not defined by your productivity. You are a better person/clinician if you have a life outside of medicine.
I wish I had known this many years ago - balance is peaceful.
Thank you @LizCrowe2 !
Let’s stop just talking about burnout and DO something! You r NOT defined by ur job. Hard hitting truths from @LizCrowe2
#SMACCforce #SMACC
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#1 - I’m forced to accept a #booklove challenge from @dochelmy to post the covers of 7 books I love: no explanations, no reviews, just the cover. With each post I’ll ask another to take up the challenge. Tonight, I nominate @anwaribrahim #MalaysiaMembaca
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It's hard to teach:
1 sense of urgency
2 critical thinking
3 creativity
4 customer empathy
5 team commitment
6 humility
7 unselfish giving
8 judgement
9 grace and dignity
10 positivity
11 optimism
12 bias towards results
13 active listening
Strong leaders teach the hard stuff.
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"Patients come to ED when they have a health crisis (and the definition of a crisis always belongs to the patient) or inevitably when solutions are not available elsewhere"
Emergency staff work hard enough – it’s the system that’s not working irishtimes.com/opinion/emerg…
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Med student: I was keen on doing Emergency Medicine...but then I did a stint in radiology.
Me: oh, so did you like radiology better?
Med student: No, but they had a low opinion of the ED.
Words matter. Please don’t teach tribalism to our next generation of doctors!
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I think the NNT is useless. That’s why I use NWTtPwNB.*
*Number Who Take the Pill with No Benefit.
NWTtPwNB = NNT - 1
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Protecting refugee children is a test of our humanity | By Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and Henrietta H. Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF. Via @CNNOpinion cnn.it/2yq3oi3































