PedEM Morsels

Ped EM Morsels Tasty Morsels of Medical Education

March 23, 2018

Children are incredibly resilient and their tissues are very pliable and plastic. With that being said, their immature skeleton can often...

March 9, 2018

The “limping child” is commonly encountered in the ED, and while we may consider the common entities like Osgood Schlatter’s Disease,...

March 2, 2018

Making a patient feel better is empowering and rejuvenates our professional spirits. This is why we all love taking care of...

February 16, 2018

Once again the Ped EM Morsels will address a topic that accentuates the fact that children are not aliens to be...

February 9, 2018

We all know that children are a special population of humans (please don’t say “kids aren’t little adults”- it engenders fear...

January 26, 2018

In the Emergency Department, we are constantly juggling large lists of differential diagnoses. We become facile at sorting through the vast...

January 12, 2018

When I was a resident (Not that long ago people! Come on!!), I was taught by Dr. Mattu (@amalmattu) that the...