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.

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. 

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!

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.

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.

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.

Recap and review the top pearls from episodes #1 (AND #100) Cystic Fibrosis, #11 Pneumonia, and #104 Obstructive Sleep Apnea with a few members of our production team! It’s Fables from the Cribside! (FFTC), our series providing a rapid review of recent Cribsiders episodes for your spaced learning.

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!

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.

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!