Straight Blade: A Pediatric Emergency Differential

Rest assured the blade is still ready to go for the last few months of fellowship. Dr. Denver Niles,  ID fellow at Texas Children's/Baylor joins the podcast to talk about the crossroads of infectious disease and the ED, specifically general consult questions from the ED (1:35), different antibiotic regimes for CNS trauma, open fractures, sepsis, neonatal fever (11:59), COVID-19 general ID experiences (22:45 ), COVID therapeutics - remdesivir, tocilizumab, convalescent plasma, steroids  (23:25),  MIS-C ( 28:48), COVID variants (31:38).  Gentle shout-outs to Lupe Fiasco and Miles Morales from my COVID Christmas playlist. GET VACCINATED.

A long overdue episode with the esteemed Dr. Tyler Yates (recent Duke AI fellow now attending at OHSU) covering all things allergy and immunology including: recent practice guideline changes / management of anaphylaxis (1:20), tryptase levels in anaphylaxis (10:57), food allergy (18:30), oral allergy syndrome (22:00),  when to call an allergist/immunologist from the ED (30:33),  immunodeficiency in regards to COVID-19 (40:40), interesting therapeutics with immunodeficiency (44:49) and his take on appropriate referrals (50:18). Apologies for occasional drops in the audio--we'll be better next time.

Pediatric cardiology fellow Dr. Rohin Moza and I chat all things cardiology: how PEM/other ED providers can improve their process with the pediatric cardiology consult (2:11), pediatric EKG interpretation (15:00), management of children with congenital heart disease (33:40), cardiac ultrasound POCUS vs ECHO (53:35), and management of MIS-C patients from the cardiology perspective (1:02:39). Tributes to reggaeton and getting better.  And it's always the heart.

Straight Blade transitions to zoom in the COVID era to chat with PICU Fellow Dr. Jay Rakkar regarding traumatic brain injury, DKA, shock, and management of respiratory failure in patients with asthma and bronchiolitis. Shoutouts to Watchmen and Will Smith as well.

The first inaugural podcast in this series. I talk with a Dr. Arthi Hanallah a current urology chief resident / rising pediatric urology fellow on all things urology (basic workup, renal trauma, torsion, phimosis/paraphimosis, post circumcision management, & bonus mircolithiasis).  Also reverent / irreverent throwbacks to Arthur and '90s-2000s NBA.  Sorry hydronephrosis enthusiasts but that topic will be covered on a future podcast.