Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 7, 2023

This prospective cohort study included patients between 0-16 years old, who presented to one of four NHS hospital sites in Greater Manchester (a large metropolitan area in the North of England), consisting of an Urgent Care Centre and three Emergency Departments. Pediatrics. Front Pediatr. 2013 Apr 1;131(4):e1150–7.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. This case was submitted by… A previously healthy 19-month-old male presented with lethargy and abdominal distention from an urgent care. Rev Paul Pediatr. This is the fourth of the four cases. PMID: 3296130.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In our guideline section, we chose a review in Pediatrics looking at phototherapy to prevent severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. In this issue of Pediatrics , Leyenaar and colleagues reported on a trial to compare the effectiveness of direct admission to bypass their emergency departments. Pediatrics. Eur J Pediatr.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 28, 2023

As our hospital filled up, I was left doing video visits with my patients (visits that I found unrewarding), educational sessions about COVID for doctors from other specialties, and urgent care shifts to see the patients who needed to be seen in person. MJ was the first person I diagnosed, definitively, with COVID.

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Hospitals PPE Urgent Care Academics 95

PulmCCM

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Apollo Study MeMed BV™ was also tested in the Apollo study (published 2024) enrolling 476 adults and children at EDs and urgent care centers in the U.S. With fewer excluded equivocal diagnoses, the test performed less well (reporting 90% sensitivity and 93% specificity for bacterial vs viral infection). Pediatrics.

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