Medical Music Mondays: So Appy to See You
Appendicitis! Rock Opera! McBurney's point! Epic!
Medical Music Mondays: Palpable Olive Season
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?
Medical Music Mondays: A Fallopian Twist of Fate
Ovarian Torsion causes lots of pain and vomiting. If you want to get a transabdominal ultrasound you need a full bladder. Also Motown is cool.
More than the rule of 2s: All about Meckel Diverticulum
Meckel's diverticulum is a congenital anomaly of the small intestine that can present with various clinical manifestations, including rectal bleeding and obstruction. Recognizing the characteristic features and understanding the differential diagnosis is crucial in managing patients with lower gastrointestinal bleeding. The Meckel's scan is the preferred diagnostic modality, and prompt surgical consultation may be necessary for symptomatic cases.
PEMPix 2023 Online Case 1: A House Divided
PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. This year, in addition to the 10 finalists Maneesha Agarwal will be presenting at the National Conference and Exhibition we will be sharing four cases online in advance of the conference. This is the first of the four cases.
PEMPix 2022 Online Case 03: Splash Mountain
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 third of the four cases. See if you can conquer all four "mountains" and guess the correct diagnosis.
Podcast Briefs: Neutropenic Enterocolitis
Bad things happen when you don't have enough neutrophils. After getting cytotoxic chemotherapy you tend to have even fewer neutrophils. This can put you at risk for neutropenic enterocolitis which should be suspected in an immunocompromised child with fever and abdominal symptoms. Treatment is broad spectrum antibiotics and the imaging test of choice is CT with contrast. Learn all about this potentially catastrophic condition in this brief podcast episode.
Briefs: Neonatal Mastitis
Neonatal mastitis is a rare, but potentially dangerous infection in newborns. Learn more about the workup and treatment in this PEMBlog Brief.
A podcast on using ultrasound to diagnose acute appendicitis
This episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine podcast is focused on the use of ultrasound to make the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. You'll learn about how a right lower quadrant ultrasound is performed, what we look for on the images, how to interpret [...]
A podcast on intussusception
This episode reviews the diagnosis and management in practical manner that should help you on your next shift. It also features the talents of Kriti Gupta, MD, a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellow from NewYork Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital who is both the producer and host of this episode.