PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS). 2019 Apr 1;48(4):e169-e174. Management of Congenital Lung Malformations. Bronchopulmonary sequestration C. Lymphoma D. Congenital pulmonary airway malformation E. Tuberculosis Tap/Click here to reveal the correct answer B.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? That’s what we do.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Management, it’s hard. And even up to a year out across diagnoses, every diagnoses including neurodegenerative diseases, costs less for those enrolled in hospice compared to not. Are you going to see a doctor are? Who sees you?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks. Something about it wasn’t necessarily right in terms of her desire to be always with us.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

2019 Jul;144(1):e20183221. 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. Let’s go ahead and pivot to initial management. Cervical Spine Injury Risk Factors in Children With Blunt Trauma.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. The West Virginia Legislature passed bills in both 2019 and 2023 requiring insurers to respond to nonurgent authorization requests within five days and more urgent requests within two days, among other mandates.

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