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Episode 12: High Altitude Illness with Elaine Reno

On this episode, host Jason Woods speaks with Dr. Elaine Reno, an emergency medicine physician who is also a wilderness medicine expert, about high altitude illness in pediatrics. We focus on risk factors, identification of illness, and recommendations for initial treatment. Important points Significant altitude illness is rare below 8000 feet Pre-verbal children DO experience high …

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Episode 9: Suicide Prevention and Firearms

The last in our current series on firearm violence looks at suicide prevention and the relation of firearms to suicide. Host Jason Woods MD talks with Dr. Emmy Betz, a researcher in suicide prevention, about what is currently know, strategies for harm reduction, and her efforts as the co-founder of the Colorado Coalition for Firearm …

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Episode 8: Firearm and Youth Violence in Canada

We continue our look at firearm and violent injury in the youth population by examing the issue outside of the United States. Host Jason Woods MD gathered Canadian physicians Carolyn Snider and Natasha Saunders, both researchers on violent injury (and specifically firearm-related injury), to discuss the scope of violent youth injury in Canada, ED-based intervention programs, …

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Episode 7: Reframing how we think about firearm violence

Violent injury, particularly related to firearms, has been at the forefront of national discussion recently. Pediatric victims and survivors have begun to enter into the public discussion via a strong social media presence, and as clinicians who treat these patients’ injuries, we are also obligated to participate in prevention. This is the first in a series …

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Episode 6: What is the ED role in Child Abuse Evaluation and Documentation?

Host Jason Woods MD chats with Dan Lindberg MD, national expert in Child Abuse evaluation, on what role the ED plays in the evaluation of child abuse, and addresses the things that scare the ED doc the most. How do I avoid going to court? What and how should I document? What can I do …

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