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Am J Emerg Med
October 2014
Medical University of South Carolina Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Charleston, SC. Electronic address:
Objective: To describe a tertiary care pediatric emergency department (PED) experience with bougienage for esophageal coins.
Methods: This was a large retrospective case series of children with esophageal coins presenting to a tertiary PED from January 2004 to October 2012. Bougienage eligibility criteria were medically stable, no prior gastro-esophageal surgery or disease, single coin, and witnessed ingestion within 24 hours.
The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of academic Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) faculty, the workload of these physicians, and the perceived effect this workload has had or will have on job satisfaction. A self-administered, seven-page, closed-end survey was used. participants were PEM departments with PEM Fellowship Training Programs.
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July 1993
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Study Objective: To evaluate the ability of emergency medical technician-paramedic (EMT-P) units to become and remain proficient in the performance of the intraosseous infusion procedure.
Design And Setting: Descriptive nonrandomized trial open to all patients meeting protocol criteria over a five-year period; prehospital urban and suburban area with a population of 951,000.
Participants: One hundred fifty-two consecutive patients (age range, newborn to 102 years) who had intraosseous infusion line placement attempted by EMT-Ps.
Ann Emerg Med
September 1990
Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Preschool age children often experience marked anxiety and physical pain during laceration repair. Locally infiltrated anesthetics or topical tetracaine, adrenaline, and cocaine (TAC) usually control the physical pain but have little or no effect on anxiety. Midazolam is a short-acting benzodiazepine with anxiolytic, hypnotic, and antegrade amnestic effects.
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