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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

PEMBlog

In this episode we dive into the resurgence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae an atypical bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia thats making waves in pediatric emergency medicine. Well cover its clinical presentation, epidemiology, diagnostic approach, and management, including why standard beta-lactam antibiotics wont work.

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Why Pediatric Rare Medicine is Like Timeshare Sales

Sensible Medicine

It is well-recognized that our commercial drug development process, a process that has led to so many nearly miraculous advancements, serves people with rare diseases poorly. Sensible Medicine readers appreciate a well-designed clinical trial. We want a resort that runs with military precision, especially the plumbing.

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Universal Depression Screening Leads to Unnecessary Harm

Sensible Medicine

The adoption of depression screening is, of course, well-intentioned. In a 2017 Lancet trial , 10,190 personnel from the UK military were randomized to post-deployment depression screening or no screening. The benefit of screening is just too small to be detected by well-designed trials. fold (NNH=14, p= 0.01 ).

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Hypothermia and drowning

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721. Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721. Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721. 593-600 Therapeutic hypothermia is no longer recommended in survivors of pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to drowning. Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721 Kattih, Z., Let’s hop in.

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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

ACEP Now

The reason I think orthopedists have done so well because they’ve been involved, they’ve been politically engaged, they’ve used their assets to preserve their assets. Another is to deliver the best patient care you possibly can, and those things don’t work very well together. You don’t get that from other places, maybe the military.

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What Are the Complications of Sickle Cell Trait?

Pediatric Education

He had no concerns and he was doing well in school and with his friends. He had a sprained ankle the previous year that he says was well-healed. There is no positive association for deep venous thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, heart failure, stroke and no abnormalities of growth parameters in the pediatric population.

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How Old Do You Have to Be To Receive Yellow Fever Vaccine?

Pediatric Education

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. ” One of the US’s national military medical centers in Bethesda Maryland is named for Walter Reed. Pediatr Clin North Am.