Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Children You’re working in the peds ED and the weather outside is just starting to get warmer. Your first patient of the day is a young 2 yo girl with no PMH as per the parents, that was playing in the park when she fell Read more…
Hey everyone. It’s time for another peds blog. We were in a short hiatus but now we are back on. I figured that while we were in our procedure blog, we should cover a topic involving the little ones. And in this blog, I actually mean the little ones (<12 Read more…
Let’s face it. As emergency physicians, clearing the C-spine on an injured adult seems like a daily practice. We have evidenced based rules that we can use as guidelines and often if there is any doubt about injury or if the patient is obtunded/unable to accurately give a history, a Read more…
HELP!!! This baby is wheezing We’ve all been there. That shift when a parent walks in with their 4 month old wheezing for the first time. It’s that time when it seems like every child has a URI and is wheezing. You begin to wonder which treatment is best. Read more…
Splash!!! Welcome to the first entry of our monthly pediatric blog. Here we will talk about evidence based medicine and it’s clinical utility in the ER with our younger patients. Enjoy! Here’s a case to get us started. You’re working in the ER in early June Read more…