I enjoy taking care of patients and I finding it endlessly rewarding to help train others to do the same. I trained at the Combined Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics residency program at University of Maryland, where I had the tremendous fortune of learning from world renowned educators and clinicians. Now I have the unbelievable honor of working with an unbelievably gifted group of practitioners at Carolinas Medical Center. I strive every day to inspire my residents as much as they inspire me.
The skin findings may just be the "tip of the iceberg" and that is true with Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) in children.
Strep pharyngitis testing is common in the ED, but we may be a little excessive in our search for strep pharyngitis in toddlers (< 3 years of age). Let us take a minute to review the guidelines.
Constipation is a chronic complication of cystic fibrosis, but we need to also consider Distal Intestinal Obstruction Syndrome (DIOS) in these patients.