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Parvo Podcast! Erythema Infectiosum, Fifth Disease, and more!

PEMBlog

This often requires hospitalization and transfusionin one series, 87% of children with transient aplastic crisis required packed red blood cell transfusions. One review identified about 129 cases of parvovirus-related neurologic complications between 1970 and 2012, with encephalitis making up about two-thirds of those cases.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

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While elevated blood pressure readings are critical data points, the presence of symptoms and signs of end-organ dysfunction are paramount in diagnosing a hypertensive emergency (Kamat 2024). Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses. 2012 Sep 5;4:85-92. Open Access Emerg Med.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. So, Alex, imagine you’re a seriously-ill hospitalized patient and I’m your doctor, unluckily for you. Eric: Either.

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Podcast: Cervical Spine Injuries & Imaging in Children

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2012 Jan 13;61(RR-1):1-20. It’s particularly difficult to diagnose cervical spine injuries in kids under three because they can’t give you an accurate history and cooperate with the exam. Any patient with a cervical spine injury or a neurologic deficit They’re getting admitted to the hospital. MMWR Recomm Rep.

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As Federal Health Grants Shrink, Memory Cafes Help Dementia Patients and Their Caregivers

Physician's Weekly

Kennedy comes to this memory cafe twice a month since being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in his late 50s. have been diagnosed with some form of dementia. It’s hospitality. She opened her first one in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 2012, just over a year after her transformative trip to the U.K.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

Testing and outreach for HIV faltered in the South , a region that accounts for more than half of all HIV diagnoses. Half of new diagnoses today are in the South and a third are among people with low incomes. Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS. He has taken on the role of dad or uncle to many.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. are tested for jaundice before discharge from hospitals.