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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

This episode is a co-production of the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center whose mission is to minimize morbidity and mortality of acutely ill and injured children across the emergency continuum. Government. Zima; Follow-up After Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Visits. 10.1542/peds.2022-057383

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

PEMBlog

Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. Government. J Inherit Metab Dis 2007; 30:631. Diagnostic yield of head CT in pediatric emergency department patients with acute psychosis or hallucinations. We have developed a series of pain focused episodes.

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Biased research, aggressive sales, harmful drugs

The Health Policy Exchange

Image courtesy of scienceblogs.com The original impetus for the development of the anemia drugs Epogen, Procrit, and Aranesp, which mimic the actions of the hormone erythropoietin, was to spare dialysis patients with severe anemia the inconvenience and risks associated with periodic blood transfusions. Could the FDA and other U.S.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 2: Non-pharmacologic management of agitated children

PEMBlog

Patient that are agitated should always be treated with dignity and respect. Government. Structured team approach to the agitated patient in the emergency department. This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. Emerg Med Clin North Am.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

And the government can do something about that?!? I think part of this does stem from a clinical experience and also some of the theoretical models that have evolved around serious illness, you know, to think specifically about dementia. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!?

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

He directed the patients to seek local help. While it’s possible that Nath’s patients suffered covid vaccine injuries, Marks said, their symptoms were so varied it was hard to characterize a possible syndrome. system for monitoring the rare ill effects of vaccines. His clinical study was ending. Kennedy Jr.

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Court Strikes Down CMS’s Accumulator Adjustment Rule That Threatened Manufacturer Patient Savings Programs

FDA Law Blog

By Faraz Siddiqui — Last June, we blogged about a lawsuit brought by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) challenging CMS’s ill-conceived Accumulator Adjustment Rule (“final rule”), which amended the Medicaid Rebate best price regulation. See 42 C.F.R. §§ 447.505(c)(8)-(12).