Emergency Medicine News

Children aged younger than 5 years frequently ingest personal care products, with nearly 70,000 presenting to EDs throughout the United States for these ingestions, according to the findings of a retrospective analysis published in Clinical Pediatrics. This equates to nearly one child presenting to the ED every 2 hours.

An image recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine captured the injuries sustained by a teenage boy after an e-cigarette exploded in his face.

Pediatric ingestions of marijuana substantially increased among young children after it was legalized in several states, according to research published in Pediatric Emergency Care.

A team of researchers known as the Firearm Safety Among Children and Teens, or FACTS, Consortium have identified specific areas in which urgent information is needed within the next 5 years to reduce firearm injuries and deaths among children and teens.

Adolescents who get less than 8 to 10 hours of sleep a night may be at increased risk for risky sexual behaviors, including engaging in sex without a condom or under the influence of drugs or alcohol, according to recent findings.

Recent findings demonstrated that pediatric EDs in the United States use more imaging for conditions that do not routinely require them for diagnosis, including constipation and abdominal pain, compared with pediatric EDs in Ontario, Canada.

The number, rate and severity of liquid laundry detergent packet exposures among children aged younger than 6 years decreased modestly between 2015 and 2017, which researchers attributed to a voluntary safety standard and public awareness campaigns.

Poll results published by C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital suggested that almost one in five children aged 4 to 13 years who ride bicycles never wears a helmet.

PHILADELPHIA — As the number of companies claiming to have created a device that assesses or diagnoses head injury increases, it is important to remember that the FDA has only granted 510(k) clearance to 14 such devices, a presenter at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting said.

ATLANTA — In this video, Erin Moritz, PhD, MS, a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer assigned to the Illinois Department of Public Health, discusses an investigation of an acute outbreak of severe bleeding associated with synthetic cannabinoids in 2018.