Pediatric Education

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The diagnosis of a healthy female was made who would be traveling to an area endemic for several infectious diseases. The pediatrician consulted the Centers for Disease Control website for vaccine recommendations for the Congo which indicated the need for malaria prophylaxis as well as Yellow Fever and Typhoid vaccine.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MARCH 18, 2024

Clinical Infectious Diseases [Internet]. Disease severity of Shiga toxin-producingE. 2014 [Cited June 2020]; 7: 231-239. Available from: [link] Wong CS, Mooney JC, Brandt JR, Staples AO, Jelacic S, Boster DR, et al. 2012 Mar 19 [cited 2023 Nov 30];55(1):33–41. Ped Neprhrol. Cited June 2020]; 23: 1749-1760.

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Pediatric Education

AUGUST 20, 2023

per 100,000 hospitalizations in 2014. In a study from the US of 4075 admissions nationwide (ages 6-19 years) from 2003-14 found a low but increasing incidence of PLA from 9.63 Streptococcus (10.8%), Staphlococcus aureus (9.2%), Klebsiella pneumoniae (5.4%) and Escherichia coli (5.4%) were the most common causes of PLA.

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Pediatric Education

AUGUST 11, 2024

Substance abuse was unlikely as the cause as was a migraine, or an infectious disease cause. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2014-307853 McClellan J. The pediatrician couldn’t unveil any other psychosis-type symptoms, nor specific mood or personality disorder symptoms. Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed. 2015;100(5):233-237.

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ALiEM

MAY 13, 2024

2014 Feb;15(1):111-3. Acad Emerg Med. 2002;9:1448–1451. PMID 12460854. Castleberg E, Jenson N, Dinh VA. Diagnosis of necrotizing faciitis with bedside ultrasound: the STAFF Exam. West J Emerg Med. doi: 10.5811/westjem.2013.8.18303. 2013.8.18303. PMID: 24578776 ; PMCID: PMC3935782. Lin MJ, Neuman M, Rempell R, Monuteaux M, Levy J.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 10, 2024

Exclusion criteria included children with known chronic diseases, exclusively breast-fed infants , or those who had already received an immediate transfusion at presentation to the hospital prior to recruitment. 3,950 children were recruited between September 2014 to May 2017.

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RebelEM

MAY 15, 2024

Read More: Infectious Disease Society of America 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines Life in the Fast Lane: Febrile Neutropaenia Uptodate: overview of neutropenic fever syndromes EMRAP: Risk stratification of neutropenic fever MDCalc: MASCC Score MDCalc: CISNE Score References: Ahn S, Rice TW, Yeung SJ, Cooksley T. Epub 2014 May 28.

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EMDocs

JULY 15, 2023

Infectious Diseases Society of America. Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2014 Jul 15;59(2):e10-52. Clin Infect Dis. dailymed.nlm.nih.gov.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 6, 2024

You review his chart and note that he had a heart transplant in 2014 but has not followed up with a cardiologist for at least 3 years. The patient also has a distant history of abdominal aortic aneurysm, left above-knee amputation 2/2 peripheral artery disease, atrial fibrillation, and deep vein thrombosis on coumadin. doi:10.1034/j.1399-0012.1999.130307.x

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EMDocs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

1 However, given that the benefit for patients with sepsis who are not in shock is not as apparent if the diagnosis is unclear, antibiotics can be delayed for up to three hours to allow further infectious workup and avoid inappropriate antibiotic delivery. 1 The addition of other agents is tailored on a case-by-case basis (Figure 2).

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EMDocs

MAY 29, 2023

2014 Oct;43(10):417-20. Available from: [link] (11) Berbari EF, Kanj SS, Kowalski TJ, Darouiche RO, Widmer AF, Schmitt SK, Hendershot EF, Holtom PD, Huddleston PM 3rd, Petermann GW, Osmon DR, Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2014 Aug;37(2):E4. The Open Infectious Disease Journal. Pediatr Ann.

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Pediatric EM Morsels

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A “Syndromic” Approach for Diagnosing and Managing Travel-Related Infectious Diseases in Children. Travel-associated disease among US residents visiting US GeoSentinel clinics after return from international travel. 2014 Dec;31(6):678-87. Glob Pediatr Health. 2021 May; 8:1-16. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The 2020 Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. Randel A, Infectious Disease Society of America. 2014 May;133(5):e1121-1127. Med J Aust. 2021 Mar;214(5):220–7. IDSA Updates Guideline for Managing Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis. Pediatrics.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Camargo, Clinical Trial: Comparative Effectiveness of Cephalexin Plus Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Versus Cephalexin Alone for Treatment of Uncomplicated Cellulitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 56, Issue 12, 15 June 2013, Pages 1754–1762, [link] Liu C, Bayer A, Cosgrove SE, et al.

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Pediatric EM Morsels

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Parvovirus can cause a range of diseases from mild rashes to life-threatening complications in vulnerable populations. 1, 2014, pp. “Parvovirus B19 and Its Role in Human Disease.” ” The Lancet Infectious Diseases , vol. link] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 3, 2015, pp.

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Taming the SRU

JUNE 12, 2023

Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clinical Infectious Diseases. doi:10.1136/emermed-2014-204378 Manning SE, Rupprecht CE, Fishbein D, et al. Stevens DL, Bisno AL, Chambers HF, et al.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

2018 Nov 22;379(21):2002-2014. References Schnadower D, Tarr PI, Casper TC, Gorelick MH, Dean JM, O’Connell KJ, Mahajan P, Levine AC, Bhatt SR, Roskind CG, Powell EC, Rogers AJ, Vance C, Sapien RE, Olsen CS, Metheney M, Dickey VP, Hall-Moore C, Freedman SB. N Engl J Med. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1802598. PMID: 30462938; PMCID: PMC6358014.

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EB Medicine

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jeff: The information contained in this article comes from articles found on pubmed, the cochrane database, center for disease control, and the world health organization. Additionally, guidelines were reviewed from the american college of emergency physicians, infectious disease society of america, and the american academy of pediatrics.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MARCH 17, 2025

The Global Impact of Scabies Scabies affects around 100 million people globally at any given time, placing it in the top 50 infectious diseases in terms of disability-adjusted life years. Its impact exceeds that of diseases like dengue fever. 2014 Apr 1 [cited 2024 Nov 28];133(4):e9106. Ziehfreund, S. and Zink, A.,

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

BK virus infection, replication, and diseases in pediatric kidney transplantation. Asymptomatic hypertension Other systemic illness impacting upon fluid intake, medication and renal transplant function (e.g. Available from [link] ISN-KDIGO Webinar: Management of the failing kidney allograft, 19/09/2023 Acott, P.D. and Hirsch, H.H.,

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Mind The Bleep

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Pathophysiology and burden of infection in patients with diabetes mellitus and peripheral vascular disease: focus on skin and soft-tissue infections. Clinical microbiology and infection: the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 21 Suppl 2, S27–S32. link] Quinn, J.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Consultation with an infectious disease and neurology specialist can be considered to guide treatment and proper disposition. Consultation with laboratory or infectious disease experts is important in selecting appropriate diagnostic testing. International journal of dermatology 53,7 (2014): 812-9. Neurosyphilis.”

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EMDocs

JANUARY 6, 2025

Open-access image source: By M.Bitton – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, [link] Infectious Disease Exposure It is estimated that, on average, refugees seeking refuge in Uganda visit a health facility 1.8 times per month and that 80-120 refugees are screened daily for infectious diseases in the triage and emergency units.

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