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A quickening of the pulse
It’s late October as I’m completing this Atoms. The autumn golds are fading (or falling), dusk arrives early and the Easterlies are building over the Baltic. This change of season is all rather exhilarating and, at the risk clumsy metaphor, finalising this month's running order (full of fresh and challenging papers) evoked the same feeling. Space permits only a few mentions here—I could have chosen many more.
Paediatric emergency medicine
We are excited about the launch of a new section, paediatric emergency medicine, convened and coordinated by our editorial colleague Cynthia Mollen from the Children’s Hospital Philadelphia. It will feature original research, hypothesis generating ideas and review articles. We kickstart the series with two novel point of care triage studies.
Ketones and dehydration
As we all keenly aware, assessment of dehydration in the absence of an immediate pre-illness weight is near impossible with next to no correlation between standard biochemical measures and degree of intracellular fluid deficit. Dumin and colleagues in Dublin assess another attractive potential marker, serum point-of-care ketones at …
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