You are about halfway through your Peds shift, when a little girl is brought in by her mother for worsening rash and swelling. You immediately notice the child is in no respiratory distress and is awake and alert. She is febrile to 102.6°F. However, other vital signs are within normal Read more…
While we may be trapped in our concrete jungle here in Brooklyn, many of us and some of our patients do occasionally get outside. In the Northeast in particular, this means a high risk of getting a tick bite and contracting everyone’s favorite zoonotic disease: Lyme Disease. This past month’s Read more…
Your Case: A previously healthy, 8 year-old Hispanic boy presents to the ED with a recurrent rash on his right posterior thigh. The involved area always becomes “infected” whenever the patient develops a fever, and this is the 3rd and most severe episode. 1st episode– 2 years ago, the family Read more…