Episodes
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Taking care of patients with Down Syndrome requires a careful and multidisciplinary approach. Come and join us with our wonderful guest, Dr. Hannah Keppler, as we go over everything you need to know about managing patients with Down Syndrome in a primary care setting. In this episode, we go over what to look out for during an initial newborn evaluation of a baby with Trisomy 21, the important screening tests and specialist care involved, and why we don’t get routine screening X-rays for atlantoaxial instability.
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Crossover Round 2! The Cribsiders reunite Pediatrics On Call hosts, Dr. David Hill and Dr. Joanna Parga-Belinkie, to recap the AAP 2024 conference plenaries. Join us as we discuss pediatricians as heroes, the importance of early literacy, how to approach social media and youth mental health, congenital syphilis, and health policies.
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Get ready for an influx of practice-changing pearls as the Cribsiders team shares what we learned at the AAP 2024 conference in Orlando, FL. Learn how to diagnose and manage GERD, common gynecologic disorders, murmurs, and hypertriglyceridemia. Find out what’s new in the newborn nursery and how to counsel on marijuana use.
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Does the thought of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome make your heart race? Dr. Kelsey Klaas (Adolescent Medicine at Mayo Clinic) teaches us how to walk with patients and families through a POTS diagnosis. We master the art of orthostatic vitals, learn about the importance of teamwork in POTS management strategies, and touch on the stigma around this diagnosis. This episode is packed with practical tips and expert advice - you won't want to skip a beat!
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Join us for our latest episode - a conversation on newborn care essentials that can sometimes become a tricky topic: the hepatitis B vaccine and vitamin K injection. With the expertise of Dr. Ha Nguyen, we’ll explore why these tiny treatments pack a big punch, and how you can ease parental fears with facts. We’ll break down the concerns so you can build up confidence in your conversations with new parents.
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Join this fantastic conversation with Dr. Julie Leonard (Nationwide Children’s) and Dr. Dan Corwin (CHOP) about the management of pediatric cervical spine injuries. This duo teaches us about the new PECARN clinical decision rule for cervical spine injuries as well as key pearls on physical exam and imaging in pediatric patients with blunt trauma.
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Join us for a fantastic conversation with an expert in the field of neuromuscular disorders, Dr. Kevin Flanigan. Dr. Flanigan is the director of the Center for Gene Therapy at Nationwide Children's Hospitals, which developed the first FDA-approved gene therapy to treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. He teaches us when to include muscular dystrophy in the differential, how BiPAP extends the lives of patients with Duchenne, and what the latest gene replacement therapies have to offer.
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Join us and expert guest Dr. IJ Anosike (The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore) to dissect the complexities of diagnosing and managing Epstein-Barr virus! From sneaky symptoms to tricky tests, Dr. Anosike provides insight on identifying and tackling this troublesome virus. Don't miss this infectiously enlightening episode!
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PART 2. In our last episode, we discussed hyperkalemia management in an otherwise renally healthy patient. But what if your patient has chronic kidney disease? Are they okay if their potassium has been 5.9 for a long time? How does our management change? Nephrologist Dr. Jordan Symons returns to offer his advice on outpatient and inpatient management of acute-on-chronic hyperkalemia.
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We’ve all been there - you’re woken up by a critical page and a bright red potassium number blares at you from the computer screen. How do you make sense of the number? What does it mean for a potassium to be hemolyzed? And what are the steps to treating it? Dr. Jordan Symons (Seattle), walks us through all this and more as we learn all about hyperkalemia.
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In this episode, pediatric nephrologist Dr. Myda Khalid (Indiana) teaches us about hemolytic uremic syndrome. Join us as we learn about the clinical manifestations of HUS, different methods for stool testing, and the role of interventions including fluids, transfusions, and renal replacement therapy.
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A cerebral sinus venous thrombosis (CSVT) is a blood clot in the venous system of the brain that can result in headache, emesis, double vision, and even coma. Listen to this episode to hear more from Dr. Lauren Beslow about the key risk factors for CSVT, important findings on physical exam that suggest CSVT, and the best imaging to diagnose a CSVT in your patient!
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Grab your goggles and U.S. Coast Guard approved life jacket as we plunge deep into another great episode! Our special guest, Dr. Mercedes Blackstone, a pediatric emergency medicine physician, makes a SPLASH in this episode on water safety, prevention of drowning, and management of the child who drowned. We learn who’s at risk for drowning, what happens when children drown, and DIVE into the management of children who drown. With all of these great pearls, you’re sure to not FLOP.
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U-r-ine for another urine episode, this time on proteinuria! We join the Kidney Chronicles Podcast, hosted by Drs. Emily Zangla and Annie Kouri, to discuss all scenarios proteinuria. They teach us about proteinuria in CKD, proteinuria in UTI, nephrotic range proteinuria, and why we should be ordering the urine protein to creatinine ratio!
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Respiratory failure is one of the scariest presentations in the clinic, ED, and hospital. How do you generate a differential and plan for the child who cannot breath? Pulmonologists Dr. Powell and Dr. Wyatt describe how we can use our physical exam and an anatomic approach as a framework for diagnosis and initial management of respiratory failure in children. Next time you find yourself staring at the pulse ox reading 85% and hoping for it to change, take a peek at this schema.
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Grab your Metformin and settle in for a sweet conversation as we chat with Dr. Nancy Crimmins, Pediatric Endocrinologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Dr. Crimmins tells us about when to screen for type 2 diabetes, how to diagnose and our go-to treatment options. She won’t sugarcoat it!
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All is not frost, we’re back to talk through the Hypothermic Infant with Dr. Sriram Ramgopal (Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Lurie Children’s Hospital). How do we know if the baby is septic or is just two blankets short of euthermia? Dr. Ramgopal walks us through the latest research, a differential diagnosis, who needs an infectious workup, and how much more we have to learn!
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Eating disorders are among the most challenging and consequential mental health diagnoses in pediatric medicine. Join us and Dr. Abigail Donaldson, Medical Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, as we tackle the complexities of anorexia nervosa and other restrictive eating disorders from a clinical perspective. Tune in as we explore assessment tools, therapeutic approaches, and collaborative strategies for managing these challenging disorders in practice.
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Extinguish any fears you have about pediatric burns with our great guest, Dr. Tam Pham. Dr. Pham is a board-certified surgeon and Director of the University of Washington Medicine Regional Burn Center and a Professor of surgery at UW. In our episode we cover: burn classification and triage, first aid of burns, and care for burns in different clinical settings.
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