Medical Category: Pediatrics

Background: Fluid resuscitation with crystalloid is one of the most basic initial management approaches to adult and pediatric patients with severe sepsis and septic shock. However, which fluid should we be giving, and does it matter?  Should we give an …

Background: Fever without source in infants less than three months old presents a difficult diagnostic dilemma for ED physicians.  Over the past 25 years several algorithms have been developed to help guide clinicians, most notably the Rochester, Philadelphia and Boston …

Pediatric Septic Hip Definition: Bacterial infection of the hip joint space and synovial fluid Background: Causes Hematogenous spread in bacteremia Local spread (i.e. from osteomyelitis) Direct inoculation (traumatic or surgical) High-Risk Subgroups Age < 2 years (peak incidence 6 – 24 …

BACKGROUND: Every year in the United States there are an estimated 178.8 million episodes of acute gastroenteritis resulting in 473,832 hospitalizations.  Most of the evidence surrounding oral rehydration centers around Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) studies in low-income countries where children suffer …

Welcome to the August 2015 REBEL Cast, where Swami, Matt, and I are going to tackle a couple of topics. First topic: renal colic. Renal colic is a commonly seen condition encountered in emergency departments and the use of medical expulsive therapy …