This is a guest post by Brian Lee and Dennis Ren: Dr. Brian Lee is a pediatric emergency medicine attending at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Dr Dennis Ren is a pediatric emergency medicine […]
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This is a guest post by Dr. Jason Zhou. Jason is a first-year Family Medicine resident at the University of Toronto. He grew up in Burnaby and attended UBC for his Bachelor’s of Science before moving to Toronto for medical school. Jason enjoys playing sports in his leisure time and […]
Sexual assault (SA) and intimate partner violence (IPV) are disturbingly common, with 1 in 3 women experiencing this kind of violence in their lifetime1. These patients are being seen in our EDs every day – a CDC study of an urban ED waiting room found 50% of people there had […]
In the Rapid Review series, we (somewhat) briefly review the key points of a clinical review paper (or three). The topic this time: hepatic encephalopathy. This is a guest post by Punithan Thiagalingam (@_punithant), an MD student at the University of Toronto. He has a background in biochemistry and development […]
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Feels like Christmas came early this year, with the American Academy of Pediatrics gifting […]
In the Rapid Review series, we briefly review the key points of a clinical review paper. The topic this time: Ludwig’s angina.
In the Rapid Review series, we briefly review the key points of a clinical review paper (or three). The topic this time: pediatric burns. The papers: Arbuthnot, M. K., & Garcia, A. V. (2019). Early resuscitation and management of severe pediatric burns. Seminars in Pediatric Surgery, 28(1), 73–78. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.sempedsurg.2019.01.013 Sheridan, […]
Suzie, an otherwise healthy 32-year-old female, presents to your Emergency Department complaining of her typical migraine-type headache. Slam dunk. She’ll have a normal neuro exam and then you’ll treat her headache with the usual migraine cocktail. But could it be Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)?
In the Rapid Review series, we briefly review the key points of a clinical review paper (or three). The topic this time: Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS) – also known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).