Laceration repair is one of the quintessential procedures that children undergo in Emergency Departments. Minimizing pain and anxiety for children is a much better idea than just holding them down and getting it done. This episode will teach you all about local anesthetics, when to use anxiolytics and procedural sedations s well as the considerable value of nonpharmacologic intervention - including Child Life Specialists.
Lyme disease prevalence continues to rise - especially in places where we didn't see it before (like Ohio!). this podcast episode focuses on making the diagnosis, the different stages of disease, as well as when to prophylaxis, treat, and how testing works - all in under 15 minutes.
This post reviews the diagnosis and management of nonspecific vulvovaginitis in prepubertal girls.
post is to provide some background and then to offer a summary of the sort of problems that can happen when babies don't get formula or breast milk.
Toxic Shock Syndrome is the focus of this brief podcast episode. Learn how to make the diagnosis and key management considerations.
The window for submitting cases to the 2022 PEMPix competition is now open! Go to PEMPix.com for all of the details.
This is it, the annual non-medical post where I post a little video that I threw together for our wedding anniversary.
Iron ingestions always show up on standardized tests and are definitely one of those "many kids are fine but some aren't and it's hard to figure out who's fine and who isn't" ingestions. Suzan Mazor from Seattle Children's helps iron out the details...
Calcium channel blockers are hard to manage with refractory shock being one of my main "please don't let this come to the ED" nightmares. Seattle Children's Toxicologist Suzan Mazor breaks it all down and discusses management of this challenging ingestion.
There are some scary ingestions out there and I think we'd all agree that bupropion (Wellbutrin) is on the short list of drugs that should make us worry. Learn how to recognize and manage toxicity, especially the neurogenic and cardiac effects of bupropion in the first episode of the third season of Toxicology podcasts from Suzan Mazor and I.
