You can reduce carriage rates of MRSA by using bactroban and a few select hygiene measures. These are effective in the short term - but the long term benefits are not well understood.
It's meningitis season! Here are a few quick hits on diagnosis courtesy of the good folks at TamingtheSRU.com
When I was first taught how to drain an abscess I was taught to pack most with ¼ inch gauze. Initially it was iodoform gauze, later just plain old ribbon gauze. As with many things I felt like it worked and had no impetus to change. [...]
This excellent article comes courtesy of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center senior resident Landon Krantz, MD - who performed a thorough literature review and wrote a concise, informative review of the titular technique. Subcutaneous abscesses are a common presenting problem in pediatric emergency rooms, and [...]
This episode of PEM Currents tackles a bread and butter issue in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, the newborn with fever. I discuss management, specifically how it differs for babies under 28 days of age as well as when to get labs and how to interpret them. [...]
This is the first video in the ongoing Art of Medicine series common . The goal is these videos is to share a demonstration of how I would talk to parents about common conditions encountered in the Emergency Department. I could think of no better topic [...]
If there happened to be a local outbreak of botulism somewhat close to where I worked I'd want to take a look at some resources; Pediatrics in Review: Infant Botulism Medscape: Pediatric Botulism Life in the Fast Lane
I'm delighted to share the latest PEM Currents podcast! I recently sat down with Todd Florin, one of the faculty physicians at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and talked about bronchiolitis, delving into the controversies around the use of hypertonic saline, albuterol and more. Todd [...]
Whenever you order a lab you must ask yourself the following questions? Why am I ordering this test? What am I going to do with the result? Given that PCT has become a frequently ordered test for many of you I wanted to answer some [...]
It goes without saying that a clinical prediction rule, and for that matter an associated online tool (one of which in particular we'll get to in a minute) is only as good as your initial clinical judgment and as practical as the environment in which [...]