article thumbnail

Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

2024-066854. 2024-066855. We know that nine out of ten children that go to the ER do not go to children’s hospital ERs. Optimizing Advanced Imaging of the Pediatric Patient in the Emergency Department: Policy Statement. Pediatrics. 2024;154(1):e2024066854. doi:10.1542/peds.2024-066854. Pediatrics. doi:10.1542/peds.2024-066855.

Families 102
article thumbnail

My favorite public health and health care books of 2024

Common Sense Family Doctor

The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER , by Thomas Fisher 3. Hope this list helps with your holiday shopping! ** 1. Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks , by Caitlin Rivers 2. The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics , by Barron Lerner 4.

ER 52
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And that was a common experience I had in my psychiatry training, was being called to the ER to see someone who’d come in with panic. And they’re like, now we want them out of the ER, but they won’t leave.

Illness 130
article thumbnail

Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. So, again, to reinforce, since IEMs have very specific non specific presentations, the goal in the ER is not to specifically diagnose the IEM. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org. References Jeanmonod R, Asuka E, Jeanmonod D. Updated 2023 Jul 17].

article thumbnail

Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And the question is, is this uremia or is this something else? Is it delirium from something else? And is dialysis the right treatment in this situation? It’s right there.

article thumbnail

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

article thumbnail

The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. And the first one was with Zeke Emanuel. And in that, you were very skeptical of predictive models and their ability to change patient behavior or clinician behavior.

IT 140