The emergency department approach to newborn and childhood metabolic crisis.
For most emergency medicine physicians, the phrases "newborn workup" and "metabolic disease" are, at best, uncomfortable. This article, however, provides a simple approach to the recognition,evaluation, and treatment of infants with all manners of metabolic issues, including hypoglycemia, inborn errors of metabolism, jaundice, and electrolyte abnormalities. The disorders are grouped based on symptomatology, and have simple guidelines for work-up and management, with an emergency department practitioner perspective in mind.
Department of Emergency and Transport Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, 4650 Sunset Boulevard, MS113, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA.
Ilene
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Claudius
Colleen
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Fluharty
Richard
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Boles
D000136:Acid-Base Equilibrium; D000312:Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000378:metabolism; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004573:Electrolytes / Q000097:blood*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D007567:Jaundice, Neonatal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D008661:Metabolism, Inborn Errors / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy
D004573:Electrolytes