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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses. For providers in community hospital settings, it is crucial to engage pediatric nephrology or intensive care unit providers as soon as possible to guide management and facilitate transfer to other institutions.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

Overtreatment leads to hospitalizations, undertreatment leads to disease progression. And for some of them, the stays in hospitals are a month long. We can figure out how to keep them in the hospital for a month, or do all these other imaging tests, but we can’t do this one thing. Mazie: Yes. Mazie: Oh, for sure.