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Articles on pediatric emergency medicine, medical education, interactive data visualization, and rural healthcare technology.

5 articles

Embedding Clinical Tools Directly in Articles

Timothy Hartzog, MD||6 min read

A showcase of the embeddable components available in MDX articles — decision trees, calculators, charts, and math blocks — all rendered inline without leaving the article.

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WASM-Powered Clinical Computing: Rust in the Browser

Timothy Hartzog, MD||10 min read

How we compile clinical algorithms in Rust to WebAssembly for sub-millisecond computation in the browser — with interactive examples you can run right now.

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Rural Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Bridging the Gap with Technology

Timothy Hartzog, MD||8 min read

How clinical decision support tools and interactive data visualizations are transforming pediatric emergency care in rural settings, reducing diagnostic variability, and improving outcomes for children who live far from tertiary centers.

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Understanding the Phoenix Sepsis Score: An Interactive Deep Dive

Timothy Hartzog, MD||12 min read

The Phoenix Sepsis Score replaced the 2005 IPSCC criteria as the operational definition of pediatric sepsis in 2024. This interactive article explores the scoring system's organ dysfunction domains with real-time calculators and outcome data visualizations.

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Neonatal Resuscitation by the Numbers: Interactive Data Visualization

Timothy Hartzog, MD||10 min read

An interactive exploration of NRP 9th edition target SpO2 ranges, epinephrine dosing curves, and cord management decision data — powered by Rust WebAssembly computation and real-time SVG visualizations.

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