PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

However, the vast majority of pediatric patients with psychiatric complaints do not present with undifferentiated acute psychosis; rather, they are seen for behavioral concerns or suicidal ideation. These presentations include behavior concerns, depression, anxiety, and harm to self or others. Ann Emerg Med. 2014;63(6):666-675.e663.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

While treating rare diseases presents significant challenges due to small patient populations and limited financial incentives, the Orphan Products Grants Program provides crucial financial support to help bridge the gap between early research and successful treatment development.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 3, 2019

She has been evaluated three times over this period, and each time she was diagnosed with cellulitis. Let’s split this category initially into two subgroups: non-infectious and “wrong bug.” Non-infectious: The signs and symptoms that lead us towards diagnosing an infection are often non-specific, so it’s important that we consider mimics.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. 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.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s important to remember that most viral respiratory infections can be diagnosed based on symptoms alone, and in otherwise healthy children, they are all generally managed the same. Most children do not need and should not be tested for respiratory viruses.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. Because I know in the early 2000s, there was this whole thing about reporting estimation of GFR, let’s get the GFR in front of people so that we can diagnose CKD and that was the equation that was being used.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. All types of dementia. I think Ab sees that a lot.

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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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Dr. Michael Bazel

AUGUST 8, 2024

There’s no bacterial infection present in urine tests. 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. Unlike a UTI, IC is not caused by bacteria and doesn’t respond to antibiotics.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

One of the primary tools used in diagnosing fever is the thermometer, an instrument that measures body temperature. Fever can present alongside other symptoms, such as chills and fatigue, which may help in diagnosing the underlying cause. Consulting your doctor ensures proper treatment.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

In the case presented, the patients blood pressure was significantly elevated, and she exhibited symptoms indicative of end-organ involvement, including altered mental status, headache, and nausea. Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses.

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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. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

As always, I’m your host, Brad Sobolewski, and this episode focuses on the management of children with metabolic disorders who present to the emergency department. Therefore understanding these diseases, their presentations and their evaluation is critical for emergency medicine providers. On clinical presentation.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This year, in addition to the 10 finalists Maneesha Agarwal will be presenting at the National Conference and Exhibition we will be sharing four cases online in advance of the conference. This case was submitted by… A previously healthy 19-month-old male presented with lethargy and abdominal distention from an urgent care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU. This happens so often/ we get consults from the intensive care unit, patient’s really sick, and you get this you know right away, this is not going to go well. Eric: Lynn or Anne? That can all start with you.”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. Because I know in the early 2000s, there was this whole thing about reporting estimation of GFR, let’s get the GFR in front of people so that we can diagnose CKD and that was the equation that was being used.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Well, it’s not just being present, though. Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. And that’s not the information that we’re looking for as much when we’re the palliative care consult team. Josh: Mm-hmm. Yeah, totally. Eric: Yeah. Stop being the expert.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Bernie: And so Alex, it was horrible.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult?

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

You present your. So even partnering with that, making sure that you have resources that are available to partner with folks who are experts, let’s say in hormone therapy, some of our endocrinologists, some of our primary care physicians, they might come to you, let’s say, for a geriatric consultation and memory loss.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? It’s just so interesting the myriad of ways that this can present in our behavior when we neglect to just look within. Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them. Keri: Yeah.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. No, I mean, I think I had the initial feeling or thought about this being present after I learned about it and were thoughtful with senior mentors about it. You just knew it? Thomas: Yeah, yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. One thing I would like to add here is both Sonu and Leonie presented this as something that lacks boundaries.

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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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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Right, my answer that brings us a little bit closer to the present than my childhood. Like, if we think about the fact that hospitals around the country, around the world, you know, people are, you know, coming in, they’re being diagnosed as dead on the basis of neurologic criteria, and that we. Sean 17:40 Yeah.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

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. The lesion’s been present greater than two to three days and changing or getting worse, and there’s a history of a previous incision and drainage in that patient. Nah, not really.

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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. All we were doing was presenting evidence-based risk factors from the literature,” he said. “To making medical mistakes the nation’s third-leading cause of death.

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Do All Children Who Present With a Complex Febrile Seizure Need a Lumbar Puncture? Admittedly, 25 percent of children with meningitis will have seizures at or before the initial presentation, but almost all of these kids will also have other signs and symptoms of meningitis, like altered consciousness, nuclear rigidity, a petechial rash.

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