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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #3: It’s a Small World

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PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. Diagnosis is made based on history and slit lamp findings. Acute Corneal Hydrops: Etiology, Risk Factors, and Management. Accessed June 18, 2024. Accessed June 18, 2024. Accessed June 18, 2024.

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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

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Well cover its clinical presentation, epidemiology, diagnostic approach, and management, including why standard beta-lactam antibiotics wont work. Learning Objectives Describe the clinical presentation, epidemiology, and complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in pediatric patients, including its atypical manifestations.

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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

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The average age of a breast cancer diagnosis has statistically been around 65. In 2024, I had another scare. If you’ve recently received a DCIS diagnosis or know someone who has, what are your options? Conventional Detection and Diagnosis Conventional medicine diagnoses about 90% of DCIS during mammograms. Don’t worry!

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

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PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? It is believed that this sequestered portion of his lung placed him at an elevated risk for infections as this is a known complication of bronchopulmonary sequestration. Lymphoma D.

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

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Well break down the virology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, and complications of Parvovirus B19. Youll also learn how to manage exposures in the emergency department, especially when the child has a pregnant caregiver, and why isolation isnt always necessary once the rash shows up. UpToDate , Jun. link] Edwards, Morven S.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And that’s what makes these issues so challenging, because at one level, we use the same term to refer to that incredibly multifactorial, complicated, complex condition as we do to stress incontinence, which is also complex in its own way. George 23:31 Sure.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

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Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies. Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction.