For those of you who could make it, we had a great Grand Rounds presentation by Dr. Prashant Mahajan from the Children’s Hospital of Michigan on the past, present, and future of evaluation of the febrile child. I will keep it brief but just wanted to share the current ACEP 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…
Thanks to Dr. Basile for today’s Morning Report! Pediatric Seizures: – Up to 6% of children have at least one seizure in their childhood – Variety of causes: toxic, metabolic, infectious, vascular, trauma, etc. Our role as Emergency Physicians: Stabilize the patient, stop ongoing seizures, identify the Read more…
Here’s another edition of Peds in a Pod courtesy of Dr. Melendez! It’s that time of the year when all of the kids go back to school and the peds ED fills up because germs are now being spread from one child to the next, sneeze by sneeze, booger by Read more…
Thank you Dr. Shin for today’s Morning Report! Pediatric Urethral Prolapse What is it? It is a protrusion of the distal urethra through the external meatus. Rarely diagnosed condition most common in prepubertal black females and post-menopausal white women. Urethral prolapsed is defined as the complete eversion of the 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…
Thanks to Dr. Melendez for today’s Morning Report (originally presented on 4/24/2012)! Venous Access in Neonates A continuation of my case from 2 weeks ago: A mother brings her 9 day old infant in because “she has not urinated in the past 12 hours and she is very sleepy”. Read more…