Anaphylaxis Carolyn Calpin Introduction Definition: potentially life-threatening allergic reaction Most commonly IgE mediated reaction Affected systems include skin (90%), respiratory (90%), gastrointestinal, cardiac, and CNS May have wide range of…
Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Suzan Schneeweiss Introduction Pediatric cardiac arrest is usually caused by an underlying respiratory abnormality In general, the myocardium in children is normal, and the final common pathway…
Pediatric Transport Adam Cheng Introduction Critically ill children have a better clinical outcome when treated in tertiary pediatric intensive care units Centralization of pediatric intensive care units has increased the…
Pediatric Triage Anna D. Jarvis Goals of Triage To rapidly identify patients with urgent, life-threatening conditions To determine the most appropriate treatment area for patients presenting to the emergency department…
Headaches in the Emergency Room Dominique Valade INTRODUCTION In emergency departments (7,8), the top priority is to establish a precise etiologic diagnosis and to classify the headache as a primary…
Headaches in Patients with Coexisting Medical Disease Vincent Martin Markus Farkkila INTRODUCTION Headache disorders may coexist with a variety of common diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and asthma or rare…
Headaches in Patients with Coexisting Psychiatric Disease Donald Penzien Richard C. Peatfield Gay L. Lipchik INTRODUCTION Although most individuals with headache in the general population do not have comorbid psychiatric…
Headache in Patients with Coexisting Other Pain Disorder David M. Biondi Mario F. Peres GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS When considering the association of headache and other pain disorders, several questions arise: do…
Headaches in the Elderly John G. Edmeads Shuu-Jiun Wang “Old age,” said the poet Bion (300 BC), “is the harbour of all ills.” A merciful exception is headache, which visits…
