- My Emergency Medicine training taught me the importance of “return precautions.”
- Educate the patients/families about the warning signs of impending doom.
- Essentially, “come back if things get worse.”
- In the Pediatric ED (or during acute care related complaints), I find that the combination
fo the two is helpful.- In the ED, we are seeing only a brief period of time of the illness process.
- At the time you are seeing the kid, there may be no obvious emergent danger or urgent condition warranting therapy… but…
- Anticipate the potential trajectories that may exist and educate about them.
- In the ED, we are seeing only a brief period of time of the illness process.
