Medical Music Mondays: Bleeding Tonsil Funk
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.
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.
A podcast episode about laryngomalacia
Laryngomalacia, is the most common cause of infant stridor. Early diagnosis is crucial as it can impact a child's growth and development. Most infants get better on their own, but those with severe symptoms need surgical interventions like supraglottoplasty. Learn all about diagnosis and management [...]
An epiglottitis podcast
The epiglottis is the toilet seat of the airway. That’s a useful function. But what if becomes so swollen and inflamed that it leads to airway obstruction and respiratory failure. That’s bad. That’s also what epiglottitis is. You can also call it supraglottitis. Either way you need to recognize this potentially life threatening malady and secure a definitive airway in the sickest patients ASAP.
It’s a peritonsillar abscess podcast!
Peritonsillar Abscesses are the most common deep neck infection in adolescents and young adults. You will see them in grade schoolers as well. Learn about the diagnosis and management, including making the choice between needle aspiration versus wielding a scalpel for incision and drainage.
PEMPix 2022 Online Case 02: The Matterhorn
PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. This year, in addition to the 10 finalists I will be presenting at the National Conference and Exhibition I will be sharing four cases online in advance of the conference. This is the second of the four cases. See if you can conquer all four "mountains" and guess the correct diagnosis.
Epistaxisode! a podcast on nosebleeds
You will see a child with a nosebleed in the ED. It is a mathematical certainty. Chances are it has already stopped. Even if it hasn’t you can stop it – and figure out why it happened – and provide reassurance and education to the patient and family. Yes, all of those things for one little bleeding nose… Listen to this podcast episode to learn stuff about epistaxis that will help you during an upcoming shift.
PEMPix 2021 Online Case 01: This One’s a Little Cheeky
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 first of the three cases.
A podcast episode about mastoiditis
Does mastoiditis always present with the classic triad of swelling behind the ear, otalgia, and protrusion of the auricle? Do you need to get a CT to make the diagnosis? What is the exact relationship with acute otitis media? Can swimmer's ear turn into mastoiditis? These questions and more are why I recorded his episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast.
Don’t wear ear buds to listen to this podcast if you have otitis externa
Warning - swimming pool related puns ahead...