Acute Rheumatic Fever – Don’t Forget about it!
We’ve discussed Strep Pharyngitis (12/3/2010) and how in treating it we are primarily focusing on preventing Rheumatic Heart Disease. It is certainly safe to say that we’ve done a great job of reducing…
Sean M. Fox
Nursemaid’s Elbow – feel like Mr. Miyagi
Nursemaid’s elbow: honestly, this may be the single most enjoyable condition to treat. Yes, we all do a lot of fantastic feats daily to help improve the health and well-being of children, but I would argue that few are as…
Tissue adhesives
Inevitably the act of caring for children will lead you to dealing with multiple lacerations. While there are a wide variety of techniques that can be deployed to make these wounds disappear, the one that is most often asked for…
Supracondylar Fracture
It is August… a few weeks left before school starts… and football season is almost upon us! I love football season, but it is such a double-edged sword – inevitably all of the Peds EDs will be inundated with skeletally…
Headaches- Common or Concerning?
In the ED we are trained to think of the big, bad diagnoses first… and there are several concerning potential options when we consider Headaches (HA). HA is a common complaint that we see in children (~75% of children will…
Staph Scalded-Skin Syndrome
The Chief Complaint of “rash” is such a misleading complaint. It seems so innocuous…“I’ll just run in this room real quick and diagnose non-specific viral rash in a well appearing kid and be done.” But, we all know…
Pancreatitis
Abdominal pain in the Pediatric ED is an exceedingly common complaint. Typically, it is due to relatively common etiologies (ex. Appendicitis, pneumonia, UTI, Torsions, constipation) and we are all adept at looking for these potential issues. Often we consider other…