Tag meningitis

Mollaret’s Meningitis

  The best part of working in the Emergency Department at Carolinas Medical Center is being surrounded by so many brilliant colleagues.  I learn something new every shift (and, in truth, is where the majority of these Morsels are baked).  Today’s…

ALTE in Neonate

Something that is certainly unique about the practice of emergency medicine is the approach to problems from the “worst first” perspective.  Now, generally, I would consider myself as someone who minimizes testing and prefers to spend a few extra minutes…

Concurrent Meningitis in infant with UTI?

    Last week I mentioned that, at times, you realize that what you were taught may have been … hmm… not fully correct.  Recently a colleague raised a great question: in the infant (6 week old) who has a…