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Lupus Emergencies in Children and Adolescents

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Emergency medicine providers should maintain a high index of suspicion for these entities in children and adolescents with known or suspected SLE. Below is a focused overview of key lupus-related emergencies, with attention to ED-relevant presentations, diagnostics, and treatment strategies. Rapid clinical deterioration is common.

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

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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 so we routinely do outreach with our community providers. So I’ll give you a couple of examples.

Families 101
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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

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I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. 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.

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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

This may result in errors in the diagnosis of the patient whom the doctor was examining initially. Despite pushing PG doctors to their limits, faculties have no shame in asking favors like helping them prepare presentations and write-ups to submit for journals. patients show their frustration at doctors.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. How much should it change how we think about making a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? Great to be back. Absolutely.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources. Eric 10:25 Great.