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Medical Music Mondays: Asthma Status

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What if a boy band from the year 2000 wrote a song about he management of status asthmaticus and then someone made a video and then posted that video to a Pediatric Emergency Medicine blog. Lyrics Difficulty breathing, asthma’s bad tonight albuterol and atrovent Dexamethasone All right! Asthamticus!

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

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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. The clinical utility of respiratory viral testing in hospitalized children: a meta-analysis. Comprehensive respiratory viral panels (i.e.,