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.