AM:STARs Acute Emergencies in Adolescents

Adolescents frequently present to the emergency department or to primary care physicians for acute health concerns that range from minor to life-threatening. This issue of AM:STARs focuses on many of the more urgent and emergent health problems and concerns that bring adolescents to clinics, private offices, and emergency department settings. Topics include:Female adolescent gynecology emergenciesMale adolescent genitourinary emergenciesSports-related head injuries and concussionsApproach to the adolescent with chest painMental health/psychiatric emergenciesSubstance use and abuse/overdoseApproach to the adolescent with syncopeEmergency care of youth with social and environmental vulnerabilities