The Hallway Consult Issue #8: Aspirin, Pediatric Fever, and the TBI Intubation
The EM literature, translated for your next shift.Three things that come up constantly in the ED — and three sets of assumptions worth pressure-testing. Does the reflex aspirin actually help? Is the febrile toddler with no source still as scary as it used to be? And is ketamine really dangerous in the head-injured patient? Spoiler: the answers aren't what we used to teach.
