Rapid Reviews Video on Pediatric Trauma

This month we have a special guest production team bring you a whiteboard video on Pediatric Trauma. You might have had trouble remembering all the details of Episode 95 Pediatric Trauma with Dr. Sue Beno and Dr. Fuad Alnaji. But don't fret! In this short video Dr. Beno and Dr. Alun Ackery review the most important elements of both pediatric and adult multitrauma management for the community Emergency Physician. They discuss common pitfalls leading to bad pediatric trauma outcomes, airway management, hemodynamics, preparation for transfer to a trauma center and much more...

Episode 95 Pediatric Trauma

Management of the pediatric trauma patient is challenging regardless of where you work. In this EM Cases episode, with the help of two leading pediatric trauma experts, Dr. Sue Beno from Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and Dr. Faud Alnaji from Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa we answer such questions as: what are the most important physiologic and anatomic differences between children and adults that are key to managing the trauma patient? How much fluid should be given prior to blood products? What is the role of POCUS in abdominal trauma? Which patients require abdominal CT? How do you clear the pediatric c-spine? Are atropine and fentanyl recommended as pre-induction agents in the pediatric trauma patient? How can the BIG score help us prognosticate? Is tranexamic acid recommended in early pediatric trauma like it is in adults? Is the Pediatric Trauma Score helpful in deciding which patients should be transferred to a trauma center? and many more...

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