Pediatrics
Clinical Review
Plantar Fasciitis: How Best to Treat?
In addition to stretching exercises and orthotics, consider steroid injections as part of your first-line treatment options. For recalcitrant pain...
News
Identifying pediatric emergencies involving fever and rash
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Patch Testing: Necessary but Challenging
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Bacterial epidemiology shifting nationally in febrile infants
Major finding: E. coli was the most common cause (42%) of bacteremia seen in positive blood cultures.Data source: Retrospective chart study of 183...
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Don’t bother with blood cultures for uncomplicated pediatric SSTIs
Major finding: No positive blood cultures appeared in children hospitalized with uncomplicated skin and soft tissue infections, vs.
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Chest x-rays for asthma doubled in 15 years
Major finding: The use of x-rays for children evaluated for asthma in the ED increased by 2.4 fold between 1995 and 2009, a trend that could not...
Radiology Review
Child hit by car
A 6-year-old boy is brought to your facility by ambulance after being hit by a car. The child was apparently riding his bike when a slow-moving...
PURLs
A Spoonful of Honey Helps a Coughing Child Sleep
Commentary
A Medical Condition - or Psychiatric?
CE/CME
Pediatric GERD
Although accreditation for this CE/CME activity has expired, and the posttest is no longer available, you can still read the full article....