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You don’t need to order comprehensive viral panels for most patients

PEMBlog

Identifying the specific type of virus that are causing a child’s symptoms, like rhinovirus vs parainfluenza, is often unnecessary, especially in otherwise healthy children who are managed at home. Comprehensive respiratory viral panels (i.e., Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e., isolation for SARS-CoV-2).

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

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Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. 2019 Apr 1;48(4):e169-e174. Management of Congenital Lung Malformations. He initially presented to his pediatrician two months prior with 10 days of cough and unexplained fevers.

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An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

In January of last year, Cole went to a Walgreens in Appleton, Wisconsin, to get refills on the medication he used to control his asthma. A few days later, he had a massive asthma attack. Back in February, we asked you, our listeners, to tell us how you’ve managed when your prescriptions got really expensive. Dan: I KNOW!