PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Learning Objectives Describe the clinical presentation, epidemiology, and complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in pediatric patients, including its atypical manifestations. Differentiate Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia from typical bacterial and viral pneumonia based on history, physical exam findings, and diagnostic testing.

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Patient-Centered Diagnosis Complication Community 91

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. He had easy work of breathing, and physical exam was only notable for decreased breath sounds over the left lower lobe. What’s the Diagnosis? This is the second of the four cases. mg/dL, normal <0.1

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Diagnosis Diagnose Patients Asthma 52

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

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. Eric 28:48 Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. But often what we’re talking about is this experience that we can describe physically inside of our body, the sensation that we’re having as we’re anticipating that things may go wrong or badly in some kind of way. I’m having a bodily reaction.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction. Hypertensive emergencies can result either from primary or secondary hypertension.

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Hypertension Management Physicals Lab Testing 75

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint. Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. They could have a prognosis of years, or decades. Eric: Yeah.

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