PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Constipation is a clinical diagnosis and does not require testing, yet as many as 70% of children who are given a diagnosis of constipation in the emergency department have an abdominal x-ray completed. The diagnosis of constipation should be made based on a good history and clinical exam.

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Diagnosis Diagnose Hospital Clinic 123

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Attention to any toxidromes, any abnormal vital signs or mental status, eye findings, and neurologic examination provide the greatest help in narrowing the differential diagnosis. Clinical utility of screening laboratory tests in pediatric psychiatric patients presenting to the emergency department for medical clearance. Ann Emerg Med.

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Lab Testing Medical Patients Mental Health 52

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So, the consult will come in and then we’ll do what we call a clinical bedside evaluation, where we’ll go and see the patient at the bedside. Eric: I also wonder, is it just the utilization review standpoint? So, if it’s a hospitalized patient, usually the referral will come through to the SLP service.

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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Individual 124

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. Additionally, hydralazine is another agent that was previously utilized in pediatric hypertensive emergencies.

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Hypertension Management Physicals Lab Testing 75

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one. And I practiced both on the palliative care consult team and in the ICU.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org.

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Consulting Individual Family Families 59

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It’s one of the core things that we think about palliative care is you got the physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms. Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. There’s a Boguts case, a patient with anorexia who utilized medical aid and dying. We do not have a psychiatrist, but we have consultants.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101