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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Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

Spinal Infection: According to the Infectious Disease Society of America’s (IDSA) 2015 guidelines for native vertebral osteomyelitis, CRP and ESR in the setting of protracted back pain have sensitivities ranging from 94 to 100% for ruling out infection and malignancy in these patients. days (secondary endpoint) [51].

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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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Infectious Diseases Sepsis Wellness Pediatrics 59

Mind The Bleep

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Always consider management as per ATLS protocol and SEPSIS 6 if relevant. Pathophysiology and burden of infection in patients with diabetes mellitus and peripheral vascular disease: focus on skin and soft-tissue infections. Ensure the wound has been adequately washed out. link] Quinn, J. McDermott, D., Stein, J., & Kramer, N.

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Fractures Infectious Diseases Documentation/Coding Hospitals 52

Pediatric Education

AUGUST 20, 2023

per 100,000 hospitalizations in 2014. ” In the Belgium study, the most common underlying risk factor was hepatobiliary disease (e.g. 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 Mortality rate was 0.8%. Questions for Further Discussion 1.

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Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Wellness Sepsis 40

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. Were the study groups similar at the start of the trial?

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Blood Transfusions Research Outcomes Hospitals 78

Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This is true in life-threatening conditions such as sepsis. However, when children do not have features of sepsis, oral antibiotics are equally effective. The take home is that although IV antibiotics are key in sepsis management, oral antibiotics are equally as effective as IV antibiotics for children without critical illness.

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