“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” CS Lewis This quote has stayed with me since high school, when it was used by one of my teachers in a futile attempt to keep her students from acting out while she had to leave the room. The recent stories in media […]
Author: Katie Donnelly MD
Katie's research interests include medical education, trauma and injury prevention. Outside of the ED, Katie enjoys live sporting events, the National Zoo, and all the free museums here in DC!
AOTW: The Risk of Admission
Super interesting article with a CNCM first author (Dr. Stockwell of the PICU)! A Trigger Tool to Detect Harm in Pediatric Inpatient Settings The authors developed a novel pediatric trigger tool to determine rates of harm in hospitalized patients. The tool searched the medical record for high risk words, phrases or orders (for example, naloxone […]
Hot Seat #57 Denouement: 15 mo old with abd pain for 10 days
by Katie Donnelly, Children’s National with Jamil Madati, Children’s National The Case The case is a 15 month old female presenting with abdominal pain for 10 days. The challenge of this case was how to best determine the cause of her abdominal pain and the appropriate treatment of her found intussusception. Here’s How You Answered Our […]
Hot Seat #57: 15 mo old with abd pain for 10 days
by Katie Donnelly, Children’s National with Jamil Madati, Children’s National The Case 15 month old female presenting with abdominal pain for 10 days. Patient initially started off with NBNB vomiting and diarrhea, these symptoms resolved in the past 3 days. She had 2 days of fever during this illness but has not been febrile in the past […]
AOTW: New Fever Treatment?
I don’t know if anyone else has seen this yet, but it has been all over social media the past couple of days. Researchers in New York are looking at the Vaca campana flower as a possible new anti-pyretic medication. They have a very small N (5), but the drug did show improvement over tylenol […]