Category: 2017 Morsels

June 23, 2017

Pediatric Difficult Airway

Respiratory illness, sepsis, and trauma are three important entities afflicting children that may lead to needing to manage a child’s airway....

June 16, 2017

Unquestionably, a lot of electrolyte panel laboratory studies get ordered reflexively and have little true clinical utility. The healthy kid (or...

June 9, 2017

Many of us enjoy the aspect of medicine that requires our refined detective skills to not only find clues in the...

June 2, 2017

“Abdominal pain” is ubiquitous in the pediatric acute care setting. It’s list of potential causes are extensive and diverse. We have discussed...

May 26, 2017

Wound management is an important aspect of care in the Peds ED. We have covered several related topics (ex, Plantar Wounds, Road...

May 19, 2017

We all are well aware of the prevalence “fever” as a presenting complaint. We are also well aware that not all...

May 12, 2017

Embryology is amazing. Seriously. Think about it. Growing from one cell to all of the complex structures that form our organs...