Myth #9: With treatment, fevers should come down to normal… We hear this one all the time. Parents are often uncomfortable taking their child home from the Emergency Department if they still have a fever. So, if the child…
Myth #8: Tylenol is better than Motrin for fever reduction… This is part 8 of a 10-part series where I will be busting what I consider to be the top 10 myths involving pediatric fever. To start our topic…
This is part 7 of a 10-part series where I will be busting what I consider to be the top 10 myths involving pediatric fever.
Background Atrial fibrillation is the most frequent dysrhythmia managed in the ED, making up 0.5-1.0% of ED visits worldwide. Recent-onset AF (RAF) is typically defined as AF that has been present for < 48 hours.1 As clinicians, we certainly have…
In 2014, Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) introduced a blog series titled “How I Work Smarter” where Emergency Physicians described the life-hacks they use to work smarter, not harder. On April 18th2019, a thematic review of this series…