Posts in Pediatrics
The Acutely Agitated Child in the Emergency Department

A 9-year-old boy with a history of oppositional defiant disorder, as well as prior admissions to a psychiatric hospital for behavioral concerns, presents to the Emergency Department (ED) of an academic children’s hospital with acute agitation. The patient is brought to the ED via ambulance by emergency medical services and police...

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SNAP! A pediatric fall onto an outstretched hand!

A 21-month-old male presented to the emergency department with right upper extremity pain after a fall from a chair. He was initially discharged after unrevealing x-rays of the right upper extremity. However, after being discharged, the patient and his mother were called back in to the emergency department after an attending pediatric radiologist overread the xrays and identified a posterior fat pad…

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