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.
Podcast Briefs: Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
Hand, Foot, and Mouth (and Butt) disease is incredibly popular in the summer/warm weather months in the Northern Hemisphere (August through October). It is so popular that I guarantee you will see it many times. This brief episode will teach you how to make the diagnosis and review strategies for management - which are largely supportive.
Briefs: The fever that rashes
High fever, no other symptoms followed by a rash? What could it be?
A podcast on pain management for children needing laceration repair
Laceration repair is one of the quintessential procedures that children undergo in Emergency Departments. Minimizing pain and anxiety for children is a much better idea than just holding them down and getting it done. This episode will teach you all about local anesthetics, when to use anxiolytics and procedural sedations s well as the considerable value of nonpharmacologic intervention - including Child Life Specialists.
Tick, tick, boom! a Lyme Disease podcast
Lyme disease prevalence continues to rise - especially in places where we didn't see it before (like Ohio!). this podcast episode focuses on making the diagnosis, the different stages of disease, as well as when to prophylaxis, treat, and how testing works - all in under 15 minutes.
Briefs: Vulvovaginitis in the prepubertal child
This post reviews the diagnosis and management of nonspecific vulvovaginitis in prepubertal girls.
What can happen if an infant is fed something other than breastmilk or formula?
post is to provide some background and then to offer a summary of the sort of problems that can happen when babies don't get formula or breast milk.
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.
2022 PEMPix case submissions are now being accepted!
The window for submitting cases to the 2022 PEMPix competition is now open! Go to PEMPix.com for all of the details.
Happy 15th Anniversary to my amazing wife!
This is it, the annual non-medical post where I post a little video that I threw together for our wedding anniversary.