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 […]
Pediatrics
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Doctors prescribe a lot of antibiotics for viral illness. We shouldn’t do that. Antibiotics don’t work for viral illnesses, but for some reason many doctors can’t seem to help themselves. Because of all this inappropriate prescribing, someone came up with the (not so) brilliant idea of delayed antibiotic prescriptions, in […]
Friends, infants, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to discuss the prevalence of invasive bacterial infections in afebrile infants with otitis media. The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee (PEMCRC) study on Invasive Bacterial Infections in Afebrile Infants Diagnosed with Acute Otitis Media I could not resist starting with […]
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, […]
Took a quick break from paternity leave to have a chat with my good friend Casey Parker, which of course meant we were going to talk about some evidence based medicine. I will go back to not doing academic work for a while, but for now here is that hit […]
In the Rapid Review series, I briefly review the key points of a clinical review paper. (Once again, this time it is a combination of 2 papers). The topic: Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and cervical adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome.
Whether ‘tis nobler in mind to accept The risks and benefits of empiric treatment. This is a guest post by Dr. Dennis Ren. Dennis is currently a pediatric emergency medicine fellow at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. He has been a guest on podcasts such as Peds Admit and […]
Sucrose is not a pain medication. That rant already exists on this blog. It was also the subject of my talk at the final SMACC conference, which is now online. Another blog post is probably unnecessary, but neither resource included the references from my literature review, so for those who […]
Time for another semi-regular round-up of the top emergency medicine and critical care articles I have encountered over the last few months. This time we will tackle anti-epileptics, anti-emetics, the word “quiet”, and a whole bunch more…