Here is a podcast episode that I recorded for Cincinnati Children's show "Young & Healthy" entitled "Parents, We Need Your Attention: Babies and Kids are Sick, Children’s Hospitals are Full, Wait Times are Long." It addresses why our EDs, Urgent Cares, and Hospitals are so busy, and offers caregiver focused advice on Bronchiolitis management.
OK, so the cat's out of the bag. Bronchiolitis, RSV specifically, as well as the delta variant of COVID-19 are running wild in the Northern Hemisphere. any of you have seen precious few cases of bronchiolitis this far in your careers due to the paucity of cases last winter. Therefore this post is designed to share three key resources I've published recently that discuss bronchiolitis from a a clinician focused perspective.
High flow nasal cannula may help infants with bronchiolitis from getting worse. It also might not. What's clear is that the literature has not sufficiently answered all of our questions. There's a lot more that we could stand to learn about this popular therapy.
If you haven't read parts I, II, III, IV or V what are you waiting for? Today's post will focus on testing in bronchiolitis. And no, I won't be testing you... Let's get straight to the content. [divider scroll_text=""] Question: Do you need to get [...]
Though meta-analyses and systematic reviews - see below - have shown that beta agonists may improve symptoms scores they certainly don't affect disease resolution. Thus, since clinical scores are subjective and don't necessarily correlate with objective measurements. When sensitivity analysis is used to weed out [...]
According to the AAP's 2006 Clinical Practice Guideline, bronchiolitis is the most common lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in infants and is caused by a virus - most often RSV in 70-80%, Human metapneumovirus in 10-20%, and then assorted rogues such as Adenovirus, Rhinovirus, Parainfluenza, and [...]