(cross-site in the seminar rooms) Read more
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Have you ever wanted an infant to PU faster?
Gentle suprapubic cutaneous stimulation with gauze soaked in cold fluid (the Quick-Wee method) led to a clinically and statistically significant increase in voiding and successful urine collection within five minutes for infants aged 1-12 months
An ideal job to be given to parents/carers
The anion gap (AG) represents the amount of unmeasured anions in the plasma.
The main contributor to the AG is albumin (decreasing albumin by 1g/l reduces the AG by 0.25) so hypoalbuminaemia can falsely reduce the AG.
(However, this relies on getting LFT’s back about 1 hour) Read more
Some Radial Buckle #’s in children can be managed with:
This decision tree must be followed to identify suitable patients
If you are concerned about Non-Accidental injury – you must escalate your concern.
This is “relatively” simple way of working out if the paO2 on a ABG is normal, and demonstrates V/Q mismatch well. V/Q mismatch is simple terms is either an area of the lung either under ventilated(pneumonia) or under perfused (PE). Read more
NEW locum staff we need to introduce them to our department and processes.
Complete & Sign – check list
Please familiaries yourself with the EMBeds page for ED Essentials for Newbies
An ED and Pre-Hospital Consultant with a passion for learning, teaching and all things outdoors.
“There is no such thing as the wrong weather only the wrong clothes”
Thanks for the great turn out especially from ACP’s and Nurses (come on docs we are being out shone!!!) – and a really insightful look at the paper. Read more
