Keeping it short and simple this week folks. Here is a presentation on back pain in the pediatric ED. Just scroll vertically through the slides. You can even download it if you want. Spoiler alert! I will actually be giving this talk live tomorrow at the Cincinnati Children’s resident lectures. Back Pain in the Pediatric ED

You may have seen these strange pixellated squares at a recent academic conference on a a poster presentation, or perhaps on printed media and wondered what they are. Well, they are QR codes. Great… what’s QR code? Read on… QR codes are essentially the hybridization of barcodes and hyperlinks (website address). QR stands for Quick Response. QR is actually a trademarked version of matrix barcodes (AK

The Case A very “acrobatic” 13 year old male was jumping on a trampoline at his buddy’s house. In an attempt to do a flip he landed on his back, then bounced off of the trampoline landing awkwardly on his left arm. His friend screamed an expletive because the patient’s upper arm was swollen. After getting their stories straight, and alerting a grown-up, the friend’s mom called an ambulan

A 5 year old boy presents to the ED with his parents at 1:15AM. The parents report that they went to their son’s room when they heard him screaming. It started all of a sudden, and aside form his attending his cousin’s birthday party the day before there was nothing remarkable about his recent history (except for the party – because it truly was remarkable). His parents stated that they arrived in h

I very am interested in the use of technology in education. In fact, its my niche, my raison d’être. I want to share cool tools, applications and resources with you so that they can be incorporated into your teaching and clinical practice. So, on Tuesdays I’ll be using the PEMBlog as a way to spread the gospel of tech. This all began with my recent workshops at PAS in Washington, DC with the creation of t

The case A self-proclaimed dance team superstar presents after injuring her foot at a regional competition. She tried to finish the routine after landing awkwardly. But was having difficulty bearing weight. She applied ice overnight and despite ibuprofen is still in pain, and presents to the ED the next day.On her exam the neruovascular exam is normal, and she has pain along the proximal edge of the 5th metatarsal. Y

In many ways the management of sicker patients with suspected croup is more straightforward. Give them steroids early, let the patient protect their own airway and use inhaled racemic epinephrine. But what about the larger majority of kids that you might see in the ED (usually between 10PM and 4AM) who now have a barky cough and that’s it. Sure, maybe they had stridor at home, but not in the ED with you, where

You may have noticed that there’s no Fracture Fridays this week – well that’s because I’m at PAS learning stuff, and preparing for my workshop from 8:30 to 11:30AM on Tuesday 5/7/13 at the Washington, DC Convention Center – Room 101. The focus is on the use of technology in education for millenial learners. You can learn more about me and my co-presenters in the teaser trailer I put toge

A reasonably terrified mom brings her 17 month old boy into the ED after an apparent seizure. She states that her older daughter took a piece of candy away from the toddler, and then her son started to cry, and then “turned blue” and fell to the ground. He had not eaten any candy yet, and did not appear to be choking. Mom tried a finger sweep of his mouth, and then blew in his face several times after whi