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Brain Failure and Brain Death

    • Improved understanding of altered levels of consciousness, particularly delirium
    • Criteria to define when death occurs
    • Optimization of potential organ donors

Brain Failure and Brain Death

    • Improved understanding of altered levels of consciousness, particularly delirium
    • Criteria to define when death occurs
    • Optimization of potential organ donors

Brain Failure and Brain Death

    • Improved understanding of altered levels of consciousness, particularly delirium
    • Criteria to define when death occurs
    • Optimization of potential organ donors

Brain Failure and Brain Death

    • Improved understanding of altered levels of consciousness, particularly delirium
    • Criteria to define when death occurs
    • Optimization of potential organ donors

Pediatric Fever

    • Explores the more common diseases that may cause fevers in pediatric patients.
    • Provides algorithms to guide practitioners in managing a pediatric fever in various age groups.
    • Reinforces that antibiotics be reserved for clinically diagnosed bacterial infections. 

Pediatric Fever

    • Explores the more common diseases that may cause fevers in pediatric patients.
    • Provides algorithms to guide practitioners in managing a pediatric fever in various age groups.
    • Reinforces that antibiotics be reserved for clinically diagnosed bacterial infections. 

Head and Neck Tumors in Children: Part II

    • Increasingly detailed imaging afforded by modern MRI can be used as the only imaging modality to avoid radiation to the pediatric head neck. 
    • EXIT procedure should be considered to optimize safety at the time of delivery due to potential for severe airway obstruction.
    • Detailed history including age of onset and subsequent clinical course remains key components in making an accurate diagnosis.

The Psychiatric Interview and Mental Status Examination

    • Patient assessment precedes the development of the  comprehensive treatment plan
    • The interview must be adjusted to suit the patient and circumstance
    • The mental status examination is the psychiatrist’s equivalent of the internist’s physical examination 
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