PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS). Management of Congenital Lung Malformations. Aspirated foreign body B.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The diagnosis of a virus illness is generally made clinically with a history and clinical exam and does not require confirmatory testing. 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.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

And I think that when we’re faced with a child who has one of these diagnoses, that’s where we need to weigh the risks and benefits. Understanding that imaging isn’t always necessary to make a diagnosis, and that’s something that I think today’s trainees need to hear, and also some of the families need to hear.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Here at UW Health, we call it our Swallow Service.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Understanding the patient’s medical history is crucial for an accurate diagnosis.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

AUGUST 8, 2024

Specialized Testing for STIs or IC: If an infection is not found, further tests may be necessary to diagnose underlying conditions like STIs or interstitial cystitis. When to See a Doctor While mild UTIs sometimes resolve on their own, it’s essential to consult a healthcare provider if: Symptoms persist or worsen after a few days.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

SkinIO , Scanoma , Miiskin , FirstDerm , Direct Derm , iDoc24 , and SkinVision all work based on the same principle: they promise patients the option to self-check their symptoms and then to connect to a dermatologist online for consultation within a very short period of time. Cureskin aims to help alleviate the situation.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It's the first point of contact for all your medical needs, from routine check-ups to managing chronic conditions. Patients who have a trusted primary care doctor are more likely to follow medical advice, manage their chronic conditions effectively, and ultimately enjoy better health outcomes.

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Vascular Physician

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

If you have been diagnosed with pelvic venous disorders or suspect that you might have it, here is what you need to know about understanding the condition. Diagnosing Pelvic Venous Disorders Diagnosing these conditions can be a challenge since there are many other causes of pelvic pain.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management. A doctor can help identify triggers, suggest lifestyle changes, and recommend medications to manage symptoms.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

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.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. But watch out! That’s what I’m waiting for, Alex.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Jessie: Yes.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. Now, what should we do for evaluation and next steps in management?

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. He was ultimately admitted to the general pediatric service for further management. The patient was ultimately diagnosed with tyrosinemia type 1, an autosomal recessive disorder of amino acid metabolism.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. And how am I going to manage their pain? And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. We should build models to identify symptoms, to do proactive symptom management, and AI can totally do that.

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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? They’re often angry.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so there’s one study that used Medicare beneficiary data, and when they look at diagnoses for transgender men and women compared to cisgender men and women, we see around one in five have a diagnosis of dementia in the medical record for the transgender community compared to around, like, 1 in 7, 1 in 8 versus gender people.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). And so in that context, knowing that there was going to be some evolution of policy in this area, that’s how I got involved consulting with members, trying to understand the situation better, that type of thing. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? It just depends.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Managing anger is hard, it’s really hard. And yet we don’t ever talk about how to manage it. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. I wish they were just a diagnosis. And we received this consult to assist with goals of care. Dani: Yeah, good question. Eric: Zero. Dani: Zero. Eric: Zero.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. Alex 10:40 Wow.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? And then another, which was released under the Bush administration by a council with a different sort of philosophical Benton worldview which still managed to come to the same conclusion in support of a brain based definition, death. Alex 04:49 Amyloid.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. So how do you make the diagnosis? If you think that there’s an abscess, you can diagnose it clinically by a localized area of induration or fluctuance or use an ultrasound.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

Medical errors caused by missed diagnoses, drug errors, hospital infections, and other factors kill and maim tens of thousands of Americans each year. He and Harvard colleague Celeste Royce have sued AHRQ, HHS , and the Office of Personnel Management over removal of the article.

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