Umbilical Granuloma
It is easy to fall into a potentially callous mindset in the Emergency Department – “If it isn’t an emergency, then it can wait to see the Primary.” While that may be a valid statement, it won’t win you any…
It is easy to fall into a potentially callous mindset in the Emergency Department – “If it isn’t an emergency, then it can wait to see the Primary.” While that may be a valid statement, it won’t win you any…
We all know kids love to get objects stuck in areas where no foreign body should be. We have discussed this several times (the Nasal Foreign Body, the Ear Foreign Body, and the Ingested Foreign Body), but the Aspirated Foreign…
Without question, kids will put the oddest objects into their orifices… and then say that they don’t know how they got there. While this can lead to same comic relief to your otherwise stressful shift, managing a foreign body can…
Once again, a common theme of the Morsels is a need for vigilance. Unfortunately, sometimes those seemingly straight forward cases of vomiting in fact are due to an Inborn Error of Metabolism and it requires our vigilance to make the diagnosis.…