Coming to you from Pediatric EM Morsels and Sean Fox, today we cover pediatric UTI.

Seemingly vague, but potentially dangerous…common, but possibly with consequences……or maybe just plain frustrating. Let’s talk risk stratification, diagnosis, and management!

This post from Pediatric EM Morsels and Dr. Sean Fox evaluates sickle cell disease and fever.

We’ll give you the all the tools you need to approach the child who presents to the ED with seizure with the utmost confidence!

This week’s Elemental EM discusses how to get more mental pediatric intubation practice.

What do you do with the pediatric patient with fever of unknown origin? Is it infection, immunologic, drug fever, a malignancy? Dr. Sean Fox gives you what you need to know on pediatric fever of unknown origin.

Every so often you encounter a patient that has a finding that catches you by surprise. Like having air in places that should not have air in them. We have discussed spontaneous pneumothorax and traumatic pneumothorax in children as well as how to detect pneumothorax in neonates and how to treat a pneumothorax, but what about pneumomediastinum? As you try to resist the urge to say “D’Oh!” let us consider Pneumomediastinum!

“She won’t walk“, or “He just looks like he’s limping“. So many things can be going on — how do we tackle this chief complaint? You’re dreading a big work-up. You almost want to tell the kid: please, STOP LIMPING…