Neonatal thyrotoxicosis: a rare pediatric emergency.

Neonatal thyrotoxicosis is a rare emergency that carries a significant morbidity and mortality. We discuss the symptoms, signs, complications, pathogenesis, and treatment of a patient presenting to our emergency department with thyrotoxicosis. Prompt recognition and treatment of this entity is critical, for it carries a 12% to 16% mortality rate and is usually amenable to therapy.

Unrecognized tracheal intubation: a complication of the esophageal obturator airway.

Esophageal obturator airway (EOA) use is not without risk. We present here the fatal cases of three patients in whom the trachea was inadvertently intubated with the EOA. In all three cases, the presence of tracheal intubation was unrecognized during the initial prehospital resuscitation, but was recognized and documented in the emergency department.