A young child presents with seizure activity and malignant hypertension. What could cause it? How do we manage and stabilize for transport in order to facilitate transport to definitive care and preserve brain function?
Rashes can be relatively benign or a clinical indicator of a more severe illness. Tim Vesper helps us to understand the difference in this case presentation involving a 4-year-old child with a new “rash” and onset of accompanying symptoms…
While this can be an incredibly fulfilling career, critical care transport is not without despair. Is it possible to find the “silver lining” in even the most emotionally draining cases? What can we take away from cases like this. Jen Rosa provides insight in her very first Blog Post…
While we have been trained to NEVER disturb a perfectly functioning endotracheal tube, what if the tube was perfectly placed but sub-optimally functioning?…and where do we draw our line in the sand?
One of MANY possible diagnoses in the infant with an initial clinical presentation of poor feeding and difficulty breathing. Once the definitive diagnosis is made, the next challenge is appropriate management based on type.
While seemingly benign to Adult Practitioners, the word “Diarrhea” is frightening to those who regularly care for newborns and young children. This post will discuss an example of why this is the case
Congenital Heart Defects (repaired or not) pose a high level of anxiety for many healthcare providers unfamiliar with the unique anatomy and resultant physiology. This case provides one example and emphasizes the importance of aortopulmonary shunts.
Lateral neck radiograph demonstrating widening of the retropharyngeal space and reversal of the normal cervical spine curvature. The epiglottis and subglottic area in this radiograph are normal.
Courtesy of Joe Black, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Texas Children’s Hospital.
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