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

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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.

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

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PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. This patient was hospitalized for 4 days where he remained well-appearing. This is the first of the four cases. His rash and fever resolved, and he received platelet transfusion. Y., & Uchiyama, T. link] Takahashi N.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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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.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital? What was I doing?

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

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Pediatrics 2003 July; 112(1):191-2. Approximately 1 half of the severe cases of vitamin k deficient bleeding are associated with parental refusal vitamin k during the birth and hospitalization. These are some of the points in the history that could lead to you making the diagnosis. Ross, JA, Davies SM. Med Pediatr Oncol.