Take a look at the following seven chest X-Rays. The accompanied history is super vague on purpose I swear. Post your answers in the comments. Enjoy! Toddler with tachypnea and upper respiratory infection School age child with fever and cough Child with sickle cell anemia and chest pain Teen that developed chest pain [...]
Fractures in any infant or toddler are concerning, but not all fractures are equally associated with non-accidental trauma (NAT). A 2008 systemic review from BMJ reviewed over 30 studies concerned with all manner of fractures in children under 18 years of age. The following was noted: Fractures resulting from abuse were more common in infants (<12 months) and toddler's (age 1-3 [...]
The folks over at Life in the Fast Lane, and excellent emergency medicine focused blog have highlighted multiple free online ultrasound based resources. If you're at all interested in the use of ultrasound in the ED you should check it out. Ultrasound in EM
A two year old male presents with intermittent episodes of abdominal pain that last for 20 minutes each. In between he is fine - in fact he is tearing up a book in your office/urgent care/ED. He's probably constipated you think to yourself. But my consulted Dr. Google - plus you can't get that one kid from last year out [...]
Just thought you'd all be interested in seeing what a CT scanner looks like on the inside - sort of justifies the cost of imaging (mostly)... http://gizmodo.com/5939340/this-is-how-a-medical-scanner-looks-without-its-skin
In anticipation of this Friday's case presentation here's the chest XRay of interest. The pertinent details are as follows; 6 week old infant, tachypneic and vomiting after all feeds. Take a look at the image, and carefully consider what's going on here. We'll talk more about it on Friday.
