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If You Don't Look For It, You Will Miss It - The Examining Room of Dr. Charles
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The Examining Room of Dr. Charles. If You Don’t Look For It, You Will Miss It. March 2, 2014. Death leaves an invisible silence, a wrenching disappearance of love’s voice and presence. Your father held you in your first moments, poured his love and life into your cup, and told stories that created a fabled purpose from the dull chaos. And then he was no more. Are loved ones gone forever when they die? In the moment my father died there was a beautiful, September-like sky, crisp and blue like the month he...
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Conducting the Orchestra « empem.org
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EM and PEM webucation. 13 April, 2014 by: colinparker. Leading your paediatric resuscitation team effectively. Another little presentation at SEMS 2014…. Team size affects task performance in paediatric trauma teams (more than 7 team members results in more delays): Kelleher 2014 Pediatric Emergency Care. Cliff Reid of Resus.ME. Gives some excellent tips on teamwork and communication, especially regarding influence and persusasion, in his SMACC talk from 2013, “Making Things Happen”:. Welcome to EMPEM...
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Headaches in kids « empem.org
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EM and PEM webucation. 18 April, 2013 by: colinparker. Pediatric Emergency Departments see a few children a day with headache. So how do we pick out the serious ones? In this “noggin-cast” we explore the causes of headache, including Primary headache like migraine and tension headache, secondary headaches from viral illness, and a few other strange ones…. Headache intro: KB why we care/worry. Headache Classification – International Headache Society: http:/ ihs-classification.org/en/. Follow up – CP.
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Teach, MD: Web 3.0
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What is Teach, MD? Tuesday, January 22, 2013. Many in academic medicine have not yet accepted the values of the social media revolution. Many tell me that it is clumsy, disjointed, and the dilution of information makes that information less valuable. Although my instinct is to be defensive of this medium in which I function, I unfortunately cannot disagree with these sentiments. The other day I went to see Samuel Shem speak. For those of you not familiar, he is the author of House of God. But as I listen...
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PEMcasts « empem.org
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EM and PEM webucation. Thank you for visiting EMPEM.org. We hope to keep you a little bit interested, a little bit educated, and occasionally amused. PEMcast = Pediatric Emergency Medicine podcast. You can subscribe to our PEMcasts. Via iTunes or via the podcatching software of your choice. Please send us a comment! Don’t forget to read our disclaimer. We have a few regular voices, and the occassional guest brain…. MBChB DCH(Lon) MRCPCH FACEM. Rachel is a Senior Registrar in Paediatric Emergency Medicine...
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PEM for Dummies « empem.org
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EM and PEM webucation. 10 March, 2013 by: colinparker. Pediatric Emergency Medicine is an interesting sport. Really very broad, and really quite narrow too! There are a handful of presenting complaints that keep us busy most of the time, the same few recurring clinical scenarios – narrow. And then there is everything else, a happy hunting ground for generalists, with loads of undifferentiated problems – broad. I recently prepared a little talk. From Social Media and Critical Care. 8230; let’s chat. Thank...
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Investigation of Pediatric Headaches « empem.org
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EM and PEM webucation. Investigation of Pediatric Headaches. 9 May, 2013 by: colinparker. In Noggin-cast part 2, we explore the relevant literature with regard to investigating headaches in children. No magic answers yet, but we discovered a few useful tips along the way… and found a handful of references you can impress your colleagues with. Headache evidence-base PEMcast – Outline. Cp] Welcome, disclaimer. 8211; Intense pain vs moderate, occipital location. 8211; high CT rate, low analgesia rate. The c...
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UTI in children « empem.org
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EM and PEM webucation. 13 December, 2012 by: colinparker. Urinary Tract Infections in kids are a recurring clinical question that bugs us as clinicians… Why is Urinary Tract Infection in children different from cystitis or pyelonephritis in adults? How hard should we be looking for UTI, and what’s the best way to confirm or exclude the diagnosis? In this podcast we discuss the diagnosis, important differentials, and treatment of pediatric Urinary Tract Infection. Cp] Hello, disclaimer, introduction.
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