Rash Week! Name That Rash #1
Welcome to Rash Week! See if you can Name (dramatic pause) That (also another dramatic pause) Rash!
Rash Week is next week! – March 26th through the 30th
Check out PEMBlog next week for all things rashes. You never know what will pop up!
A podcast episode on serum sickness
This episode of PEM Currents focuses on serum sickness especially recognition and differentiation from other, more serious conditions.
Briefs: Serum sickness like reaction (Re-post)
Erythema multiform is a scary looking rash - fortunately most kids are reasonably well appearing. Learn more about serum sickness like reaction in this edition of PEMBlog Briefs.
Briefs: Neither pyogenic nor granuloma
Pyogenic granulomas are rapidly growing vascular lesions that are friable and will often present to the Emergency Department with bleeding that just won't quit. Learn more about them in this edition of PEMBlog Briefs.
Briefs: Neither pyogenic, nor granuloma
A school age child presents with a lesion on their cheek that has been oozing blood for the past several hours. The parents noted a small red bump several weeks prior to presentation, but he says that it just started bleeding in class. The school officials were freaked out and called an ambulance - mom and dad meet you in [...]
Briefs: Serum sickness like reaction
You are seeing a child who is well appearing but has a dramatic rash. The rash appeared this morning and seemed to begin on her torso, later spreading to her limbs. The daycare thought that it was an allergy and was going to give her another child's EpiPen, despite no respiratory symptoms and no history of previous allergy in the [...]
