Medical Music Mondays: A Fallopian Twist of Fate
Ovarian Torsion causes lots of pain and vomiting. If you want to get a transabdominal ultrasound you need a full bladder. Also Motown is cool.
Accept no imitators! Listen to this great podcast episode on syphilis
Syphilis has gone by many nicknames over the years including "The Great Pretender" and "The Great Imitator." Emily Labudde, MD, a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellow at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and recent pediatric residency graduate from Cincinnati Children’s discusses the various manifestations of this sexually [...]
Medical Music Mondays: Seize the Moment
Dude! If you could remember the rockin' drug sequence to for anti epileptics in the Emergency Department that would be totally awesome! Wait, there's a hair metal song with lyrics to that effect? Rad!
Medical Music Mondays: So Hot! (The Heat Stroke Song)
Heat Stroke is a serious medical diagnosis that can be differentiated from other forms of heat illness. If only there were a calypso song to teach you the main findings...
Medical Music Mondays: No X-Ray Today (Bronchiolitis!)
It's a new wave of information! RSV causes bronchiolitis. OK, so it's not new. We can make a clinical diagnosis, and X-Rays are not necessary for most children with Bronchiolitis.
Medical Music Mondays: Something’s BRUE-ing Here
It used to be ALTE but now it's BRUE. Brief Resolved Unexplained Event. It is a better name after all. And it makes for better puns... and songs.
Medical Music Mondays: Turn the Heart Rate Down
Converting SVT is super fun. Vagal maneuvers are like little interactive games that make heart rates slow down and stuff. Also disco music wasn’t that bad.
Podcast: Cervical Spine Injuries & Imaging in Children
Cervical Spine Injuries are fortunately rare in children. this episode is all about learning when to suspect them, how to immobilize the C-spine properly, and which imaging test to choose. It was inspired by a hot-off-the-presses publication from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) focused on clinical decision rules for cervical spine imaging in children.
Medical Music Mondays: Batteries Down the Hatch
Swallowing button batteries is a dumb idea. It can melt your esophagus and stuff. Endoscopy is the way to remove them. But if you have a long delay there are sucralfate protocols. But just don’t swallow them in the first place.
Medical Music Mondays: Asthma Status
What if a boy band from the year 2000 wrote a song about he management of status asthmaticus and then someone made a video and then posted that video to a Pediatric Emergency Medicine blog. You'd think that would be pretty silly right?