Talking Pediatrics

The world watched in shock as Damar Hamlin, a safety for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed on the field during a Monday night football game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Jan. 2, 2023. If parents and pediatricians weren’t already nervous about pre-sport physicals and sudden cardiac death, that scene certainly reinforced everyone’s worst fears. But could screening of any kind have prevented that incident? And what is really most important about cardiovascular risk screening in the primary care office, for athletes or for any of our young patients? Joining us in this week's episode is cardiovascular Kid Expert, Dr. Chris Carter, pediatric cardiologist and co-medical director of the electrophysiology program at the Children’s Heart Clinic at Children’s Minnesota.
View the episode transcript here:
https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-heartbeat-outpatient-screening-determine-cardiovascular-risk-2-24-23/

What do you know about preventing and treating HIV in teenagers? Did you know that 21% of all new HIV infections occur in adolescents? Join us for a conversation with our Adolescent Health Kid Expert, Dr. Katy Miller, to learn about how to talk to teenagers about sexual health, STIs and HIV, and how and to who we should prescribe Pre Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as well as Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP). You might be surprised to learn who is at risk and how easy it is for us to keep kids safe in the primary care office.
View the episode transcript here:
https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-pediatric-clinicians-know-prep-2-10-23/

Often most pediatric education and training, including simulation teams and equipment, tends to be centered at children's hospitals and academic health centers, while the first place many pediatric patients present for emergency care is at community hospitals. To help get training resources into the hands of community pediatricians and emergency room physicians, the SimBox was born. Each SimBox includes "prepacked" ingredients that are available "off the shelf" to improve the preparedness skills in pediatric emergencies. Listen as Dr. Samreen Vora interviews the founders of this innovative solution to "democratize pediatric simulation".
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-simulation-sessions-introducing-simbox-1-27-23/

As all pediatricians know, children are not just "little adults" and this is especially true in the field of ethics. In matters from consenting to surgery to deciding end-of-life wishes, adults are assumed to have decisional capacity until proven otherwise. Adults have the benefit of years of developmental maturation and experiences that have shaped a unique set of preferences and underlying values. Children, on the other hand, pose a more complex picture. Given their wide range of cognitive abilities (from neonates in the NICU to frontal lobe deficient teenagers), decisional incapacity is the default and deciding "best interest" is often in the hands of mom and dad. This presents obvious conflicts in many situations: from refusing vaccines to reckoning with an adolescent who has decided they're done with chemotherapy and its side effects. Join this conversation with our Kid Expert, Ian Wolfe, PhD RN, as we explore some tough cases in the world of pediatric ethics.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-crack-case-conundrums-pediatric-ethics-1-13-23/

On May 25th, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, setting off a racial reckoning in the midst of a global pandemic. Over two years later, have we made progress? Or do we need to turn up the volume and continue to advance racial equity? Join guest-host James Burroughs, SVP and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer at Children's Minnesota as he interviews Tiffani Daniels, managing director of the Minnesota Business Coalition for Racial Equity (MBCRE) On this episode, they discuss how a business coalition for racial equity can impact healthcare and health disparities, including the relationship between economics, social determinants of health and signals of progress for racial equity and equitable health outcomes.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-equity-actions-turning-volume-racial-equity-1-6-23/

While we all know that confidential care is important for caring for teenagers, a surprising number of us don't actually spend time alone with our adolescent patients, leaving them vulnerable to health risks without our care and guidance. Join teen health expert, Dr. Katy Miller, medical director of Adolescent Medicine at Children's Minnesota, to learn how and why confidential care is so important and what best practices to follow when providing confidential care to teenagers.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-keeping-confidential-adolescent-health-12-30-22/

On today’s episode of Talking Pediatrics, Dr. Gabi Hester will talk with one of our Kid Experts, Pediatric Cardiologist Dr. Ian Thomas, about pediatric syncope and in particular red flags and initial workup for cardiac causes.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-guidelines-gabi-not-faint-heart-pediatric-syncope-12-16-22/

How many of us working in health care are so tired of hearing about how much we seem to be collectively struggling, and at the same time, all of the strategies that we are to personally implement to help us survive our circumstances? Working to reframe the problem of burnout to change the systems we are working in, rather than individual clinician actions and reactions, is Dr. Christine Sinsky, vice president of professional satisfaction at the American Medical Association.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-improving-clinician-experience-fixing-broken-system-12-9-22/

The power of simulation is in the hands-on nature so often it is assumed that simulation must happen in-person. Simulation at a distance has been around for several decades as a method that connects educators and learners across space and time. The pandemic rapidly accelerated the use and development of this modality and led to many innovative simulations in the last few years. Join us as Dr. Sanseau, a Pediatric Emergency Physician from CHOP, shares some of the ways she has used this modality and how others can take advantage of its flexibility in their own settings. 
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-simulation-sessions-simulation-distance-12-2-22/

You can’t turn on the radio or television, or even walk into most exam rooms these days without thinking about weight, and specifically the rising numbers of our patients who are designated as overweight or obese. But what does this mean for health? Conventional medical teaching is that being overweight is correlated with worse health outcomes. But….what if that's wrong? What if there is a weight neutral approach to health that doesn’t focus exclusively on a patient’s BMI? Here to talk to us about weight-neutral health care is Ragen Chastain, speaker, writer, weight science expert and ACE certified health coach and functional fitness specialist.
View the transcript here:
https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-whats-weight-got-11-11-22/