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It's my pleasure to have a special guest, Dr. Yaron Finkelstein, on EM cases, to kick off a new EM Quick Hits series, the best of University of Toronto EM. Dr. Finkelstein is a professor of pediatrics,

pharmacology, and toxicology at the University of Toronto, and a staff

physician at the hospital for sick children in Toronto. And he's also a pediatric EM researcher

and senior associate scientists in the Child Health Evaliative Science Research Institute. His

latest gig is being the Canada Research Chair in Pediatric Drug Safety and Efficacy.

Welcome to EMCases, Dr. Finkelstein.

Thank you, Anton.

Pleasure to be here.

I'm a great fan of this show.

Thank you.

All right.

Let's start off with a case.

Hit us with a case.

Sure.

So we recently had a two-year-old who was brought in by EMS.

He's a previously healthy two-year-old who was brought in by EMS. He's a previously healthy two-year-old who was

found at the morning, semi-unconscious, basically very difficult to arouse in bed. Parents called

EMS. EMS came, took his vitals, checked his glucose, and brought him in, very drowsy and difficult to arouse.

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