Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Jun 2003
Emergency medicine training programs' educational requirements in the management of psychiatric emergencies: current perspective.
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of training in clinical psychiatry that is provided and/or required by emergency medicine (EM) residency training programs and pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) subspecialty residency training programs. ⋯ Standardized psychiatric training is not required of most trainees in EM and PEM. Few (24%) training programs provide formal psychiatric training for their EM residents, and even fewer (< 3%) provide such training for their PEM fellows.
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Pediatric emergency care · Apr 2003
Pediatricians' evaluations of their residency curriculum in emergency medicine.
To describe residency graduates' perceptions of their preparation for providing pediatric emergency medical care. ⋯ Despite limited access to rotations in a pediatric ED, our graduates were confident in their ability to manage pediatric emergencies. A pediatric emergency medicine curriculum composed of didactic teaching and clinical rotations in a pediatric intensive care unit and urgent care served as an effective way to supplement limited ED experience.
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Pediatric emergency care · Apr 2003
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyPatterns in childhood sports injury.
The purpose of this epidemiologic study is twofold: first, to determine the relative frequency of sports-related injuries compared with all musculoskeletal injuries in patients 5 to 21 years of age presenting to the emergency department (ED), and second, to evaluate the sports-specific and anatomic site-specific nature of these injuries. ⋯ Sports injuries in children and adolescents were by far the most common cause of musculoskeletal injuries treated in the ED, accounting for 41% of all musculoskeletal injuries. This represents the highest percentage of sports-related musculoskeletal injuries per ED visit reported in children to date. As children and adolescents participate in sports in record numbers nationwide, sports injury research and prevention will become increasingly more important.