Briefs: Vulvovaginitis in the prepubertal child
This post reviews the diagnosis and management of nonspecific vulvovaginitis in prepubertal girls.
Podcast Briefs: Toxic Shock Syndrome
Toxic Shock Syndrome is the focus of this brief podcast episode. Learn how to make the diagnosis and key management considerations.
Briefs: Steroids for pharyngitis
Can giving a dose of a corticosteroid like dexamethasone improve pain in patents with pharyngitis? Let's take a look at the evidence.
Tools you should use: Kocher criteria for septic arthritis of the hip
You definitely need to know how to apply the Kocher criteria to differentiate the septic hip from transient synovitis. There's a great online tool at MD Calc for just that.
Tools you should use: UTI Calculator
ncy Department. Urinary tract infections are exceedingly common in febrile children who have not yet been potty trained. UTI Calculator, from the University of Pittsburgh, allows you to plug in risk factors for febrile UTI in children ages 2 to 23 months and get a probability of a urinary tract infection
PEMPix 2021 Online Case 03: The Secret of Him?
On October 9th I will be presenting PEMPix (virtually) at the AAP National Conference and Exhibition I will be sharing three cases online in advance of the conference. This is the third of the three cases.
Briefs: STI prophylaxis following sexual assault
Unfortunately you will care for children and adolescents who are victims of sexual assault in the Emergency Department. If an adolescent is the victim of a sexual assault prophylaxis against common sexually transmitted infections is recommended.
Some quick teaching points on bronchiolitis for those of you who don’t tweet
sponses and I should share it here since I felt like there were a number of succinct, helpful teaching points. The entire tweet thread is "unrolled" beneath the embedded initial tweet.
Timely summer bronchiolitis resources… really
OK, so the cat's out of the bag. Bronchiolitis, RSV specifically, as well as the delta variant of COVID-19 are running wild in the Northern Hemisphere. any of you have seen precious few cases of bronchiolitis this far in your careers due to the paucity of cases last winter. Therefore this post is designed to share three key resources I've published recently that discuss bronchiolitis from a a clinician focused perspective.
A little bit about Group B Strep infections in newborns
Asking "What's the Group B Strep status?" Is one of those things that seeps into the lexicon of the pediatrician or Emergency Department provider. This post is a general overview of this important pathogen in newborns and infants.