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Question: Endocrine

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) You are seeing an 18 month old with 3 days of cough and congestion and 4 hours of tachypnea. On exam, she has diffuse scattered… Continue Reading →

Question: Syndromes

You are seeing a 6 year old girl who comes in for right leg pain after a ground level fall at the park. She is currently being worked up by her pediatrician for precocious puberty, including vaginal spotting and breast… Continue Reading →

Question: Endocrine

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) You are seeing a 5 year old child with known adrenal insufficiency with fluid and pressor-resistant hypotension. You wish to give stress-dose steroids. 

Question: Diagnosis

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) You are seeing a 13 year old boy with vague complaints of malaise, nausea, morning headaches, loss of appetite, and intermittent abdominal pain. When he… Continue Reading →

Question: Metabolic

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) A 14-month old boy presents with altered mental status. He has had 2 days of vomiting and diarrhea, but no fever. He weighs 10 kg…. Continue Reading →

Question: COVID

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) What are pediatric emergency physicians seeing more of when COVID prevalence rises?

Question: Hypocalcemia

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) Last week’s 10 day old patient presented with seizures and jitteriness due to hypocalcemia. In the ED, he has a peripheral 22 gauge IV placed. 

Question: hypoglycemia

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) You are seeing a 3yo girl brought in by ambulance after a new-onset seizure. The patient has no past medical history, but has been having… Continue Reading →

Question: Endocrine

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) You are caring for a 12 year old known diabetic who presents in diabetic ketoacidosis. Temperature is 37.5, HR 100, RR 24, BP 96/36, O2… Continue Reading →

Question: FEN

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) An 18 month old with history of pseudohypoaldosteronism presents with a K+ level of 9.0 and peaked T waves with mild QRS widening on the… Continue Reading →

Question: Diabetic patient

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) You are seeing a 16 year old obese teen with no previous history of diabetes who presents with recent viral URI symptoms and increasing altered… Continue Reading →

Question: 5yo with tachycardia

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) A previously healthy 5 year old boy with PMH of ADHD presents with 9 days of lethargy, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and weight loss. He recently… Continue Reading →

Question: DKA

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) You are seeing a 5 year old fully immunized patient with 2 weeks of new onset bedwetting, 3 days of cough and fever, and 2… Continue Reading →

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