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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

Many of the children you will evaluate during your shift are among the estimated 10 million United States (US) ED visits made by children with asthma, bronchiolitis, and croup, the most common pediatric respiratory conditions presenting to acute care settings.

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Navigating the Quademic: Clinical Differentiation of Influenza, RSV, COVID-19, and Norovirus in Pediatric Emergency Care

PEMBlog

The concurrent circulation of influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), COVID-19, and norovirus during peak viral seasons presents a diagnostic challenge in pediatric emergency settings. Infants may present with feeding difficulties or apnea as initial signs. nausea, vomiting) occur more frequently in pediatric populations.

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OPDP Comes out Swinging With A Warning Letter on Unsubstantiated Efficacy

FDA Law

In this most recent Warning Letter, however, OPDP did not take issue with ANY of the safety information presented about Breztri in the sales aid; rather, objections were focused solely on false or misleading claims related to efficacy. OPDP first took issue with a headline and graph presented on page 7 of the 12-page brochure.

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

PEMBlog

. · A positive test can provide false reassurance to clinicians and caregivers. A negative test can also provide false reassurance. Remember most healthy children don’t have any indication for testing and a positive test does not necessarily mean that the virus is causing the present symptoms. Hosp Pediatr. Pediatrics.

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Podcast: ECPR

PEMBlog

asthma, heart failure, and more. It’s much more logistically difficult when the patient arrests out of the hospital and then presents to the emergency department with CPR ongoing via EMS personnel and then to get transitioned to ECMO. So we need to include pre hospital providers, the emergency medicine teams.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Join me as I scope out the nuances of gastroesophageal reflux and gastritis and provide practical insights for clinicians in the emergency setting. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms. And the presentation for GERD varies by age.

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How to choose between Pediatrics and Internal Medicine for post-graduation?

Tiny Physician

The pediatricians provide their services to young population (less than 13 years as a general rule) and the IM takes care of the rest. An IM expert can’t deal with all the diseases of pediatric population as some diseases are only present in pediatric population and vice versa.