by Adam Kochman, Inova Children’s Hospital with Karen O’Connell, Children’s National The Case 15 y/o previously healthy male referred form PCP office with 4-5 weeks of right neck mass. Began as round swelling which enlarged over first 2 weeks and then evolved to flattened mass w/o significant progression in size over last 2 weeks. Pt […]

This ECG learning module was created by Priya Gopwani, Shilpa Patel, Anne Greene, and Jennifer Chapman. This 10 minute interactive learning module deals with important pediatric ECG patterns encountered in the Emergency Department. They will be relevant to lessons on Syncope and Toxicology.   Reference: Gopwani P, Patel S, Greene E, Chapman J. A Module-Based […]

Singer, Adam J and Talan, David A.. “Management of skin abscesses in the era of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus”. N Engl J Med 2014; 370:1039-1047. March 13 2014 With the increasing rates of MRSA in the community, questions about how to best treat skin abscesses in the ED have come up. In March 2014, a review […]

by Katie Donnelly, Children’s National with Shilpa Patel, Children’s National The Case 17 year old female who emigrated from El Salvador eight months ago who presents after an episode where she lost consciousness and had vision changes. The challenge in this case is how to approach this patient with recent travel history who is asymptomatic […]

By Shilpa Patel For this week, I chose an interview of Lundy Braun on her book Breathing Race into the Machine. This book explores the history behind ‘race correction’ in the assessment of lung function. It is a reminder of how our social environment informs our hypotheses and how we interpret data. How Racism Creeps […]