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

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Special thanks to Todd Florin, MD, MSCE who contributed to this post – he is also an expert on respiratory and infectious emergencies. Evaluation of the utility of radiography in acute bronchiolitis. But it’s just a CXR right? However, the impact of such resources has not yet been deeply explored. Does this child have pneumonia?

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 2: Non-pharmacologic management of agitated children

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This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. Special thanks to Manpreet Singh, MD ( @MprizzleER ) for helping to put this collaboration together. Deaths due to physical restraint. Physical and chemical restraints. PMC3272587.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

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My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care.