article thumbnail

Navigating the Quademic: Clinical Differentiation of Influenza, RSV, COVID-19, and Norovirus in Pediatric Emergency Care

PEMBlog

Common Complications : Otitis media : Diagnosis is supported by the presence of a bulging tympanic membrane with purulent effusion. Otitis media : Associated with concurrent respiratory infections; diagnosis requires a bulging tympanic membrane with purulent effusion. MMWR Recomm Rep 2003; 52:1. Viruses causing gastroenteritis.

Clinic 52
article thumbnail

PEMPix 2023 Online Case 3: The Only Thing We Have to Fear

PEMBlog

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Most notably, it led the way to the development of the x-ray, which allowed internal imagery to be used for diagnosis without the need for open surgery, and radiation therapy for treating cancer. This was fundamental in ensuring life-saving blood transfusions were safe and effective.

Medical 40
article thumbnail

Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

And in 2003, I formed Pallium India with several colleagues with the national agenda, because still then the growth was mostly conveyed to Kerala and a couple of metropolitan cities. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. But when I retired from government service, I left Kalakkad in 2002.

Community 115
article thumbnail

RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

The final findings were published in 2003. Scientists say the rise may owe to several factors, including better diagnosis, older parents and genetics, The Wall Street Journal said. Thimerosal was removed from most vaccines in 2001 as a safety precaution. The CDC estimates that 1 in 31 8-year-olds nationwide had autism in 2022.

article thumbnail

Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed?

article thumbnail

A Vitamin K Deficient Bleeding AKA Hemorrhagic disease of the newborn podcast

PEMBlog

Pediatrics 2003 July; 112(1):191-2. These are some of the points in the history that could lead to you making the diagnosis. Imaging is targeted at the differential diagnosis in the site of bleeding. Controversies Concerning Vitamin K and the Newborn. Ross, JA, Davies SM. Vitamin K prophylaxis and childhood cancer.