Pediatric Thoracic Trauma | EM & Acute Care Course

Pediatric Thoracic Trauma by Jess Monas, MD

A focused, evidence-based course designed to significantly advance your practice of emergency medicine.

The focus of the EM & Acute Care Course is the new, the controversial and the provocative. The course faculty synthesize the literature and combine it with their clinical experience to provide participants with specific recommendations regarding diagnosis and therapy related to emergency care.

[ryotakahashi]

Very interesting studies, guides your decision making. Thank you

[HockeyGuy_in_STL]

Peds ER doc here. The other reason that we are forced to re-scan peds patients occurs when our own staff radiologists refuse to read "outside scans". This is likely due to a perception of potential liability, sprinkled with issues surrounding compensation. I haven't really seen repeat CTs ordered due to poor image quality, unless contrast wasn't given when it should have been. Bottom line here- if you are not going to use the imaging information to make clinical decisions at the time of your initial assessement, then don't order the test. We are not going to give you "points" for making the definitive diagnosis first. Lastly, we are all part of the same big team here. Timely communication is the key. And no one is going to criticize you for not ordering that scan. Thanks-