Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD, FACEP – BRUE

Today on ACEP’s Frontline your host Dr. Ryan Stanton talks with Dr. Marianne Gausche-Hill about something that impacts all emergency physicians. The term BRUE is the ‘new’ ALTE. In 2016 the American Academy of Pediatrics began using the term after releasing a policy statement about an infant who experience a “Brief Resolved Unexplained Event”. It refers to infants under 12 months of age who, according to the parent, had an event such as a loss of tone, stiffening, an apneic episode or loss of consciousness for no apparent reason. What’s different in this new policy statement? Who’s high-risk, who’s low-risk, who needs to be worked up and admitted and who can go home? Find out what you need to know about these tiny patients that can create big worry.Mentioned in this episode:ACEP26