Urgent Cares are awesome places to receive effective efficient care. they can also be busy. Maybe a female power-pop-punk-alternative band can help celebrate the achievements of our Urgent Care clinicians.
Pertussis AKA whooping cough is on the rise due to declining vaccination rates. The initial catarrhal phase has mild symptoms but is super contagious. Then you cough like forever.
The Rome IV criteria are how you diagnose constipation. Also X-Rays don't help. And "The Red Hot Chili Poopers" would be a great name for a tribute band.
The Kocher criteria can help you rule out a septic hip. Transient Synovitis is a much better diagnosis. It used to be called Toxic Synovitis, but that name was too scary so it got changed.
You don't need to send comprehensive viral tests in the majority of children with cough and congestion. Just make a clinical diagnosis dang it!
Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is such a down home diagnosis. You bring your baby home and then their weight goes down. Also the ultrasound measurements are a muscle wall greater than 3mm thick and a channel length greater than 14mm. 3 and 14 - 3.14, pi. Get it? Did you read this far?
Night terrors are super scary. And the kid doesn't even remember them! They're more like sleep walking than nightmares and parents are often worried that it's a seizure or something more serious.
Night terrors are super scary. And the kid doesn't even remember them! They're more like sleep walking than nightmares and parents are often worried that it's a seizure or something more serious.
Pinworms! Ahhhhh! They itch at night and they're scary. Fortunately they are easy to treat and eradicate. They're still gross.
Did you know that pancreatitis is mostly caused by viruses in kids? They don't drink alcohol or get gallstones like grown ups. Also, scorpion bites apparently cause it. But that's silly and only something you see in board review books. Anyway, this would be a better Broadway musical than most retreads of 1980s & 90s movies.