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Fearsome Foliage - An Overview of Toxic Plants

Taming the SRU

Poison centers across the United States receive over 100,000 reports of exposures to toxic plants annually. The majority of ingestion cases occur in pediatric patients and are often minor due to low quantities of exposure. The majority of ingestion cases occur in pediatric patients and are often minor due to low quantities of exposure.

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Grand Rounds Recap 4.19.23

Taming the SRU

Subsequent exposure results in a T-cell mediated response (Type IV hypersensitivity reaction) Plants: Toxicodendron species (poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac) Also present in foods, including pistachio, cashew, and mango.

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What Are Potential Problems of Using Povidone-Iodine?

Pediatric Education

The past medical history showed a history of poison ivy reaction the year before. You don’t seem to be having an allergic reaction to it, and it also doesn’t look like this is poison ivy or something else like that that you might have fallen into. J Pediatr Surg. Pediatr Dermatol. Pediatr Dermatol.

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Episode 20 - Emergency Department Management of North American Snake Envenomations

EB Medicine

Nachi: And don’t forget our peer reviewers this month, Dr. Daniel Sessions, a medical toxicologist working at the South Texas Poison Center, and our very own editor-in-chief, Dr. Andy Jagoda, who is also Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Note that antivenom will NOT reverse anaphylaxis on its own.

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Grand Rounds Recap 8.16.23

Taming the SRU

Can also extend this logic to those with TBI’s or trauma patients are inebriated Can attempt try to mitigate the risk and harm associated with iWBCT’s Future use of low-dose iWBCT Full-body MR imaging is already being used in pediatric patients Logistic regression in REACT-2 patient population identified 10 characteristics to warrant iWBCT in patients (..)

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Approach to Shock

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Hypovolemic Shock The most common presentation of pediatric shock; look for decreased activity, decreased urine output, absence of tears, dry mucous membranes, sunken fontanelle. Cold shock is the most common presentation in pediatric septic shock, and is treated with epinephrine. Is this in an infarction, an infection, a poisoning?

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