Febrile #92 – Searching for Peace of Mind
Future physician Sophie Samson, Dr. Kristen Bastug, and Dr. Beth Thielen discuss a case of a 7 year old girl who presented with new onset seizure, headache, and fever in Minnesota.
Read our comprehensive Consult Notes here! You’ll find summaries of the learning points and pearls from the episode with links to references. Plus, you’ll discover each guest’s little piece of “culture” too!
Future physician Sophie Samson, Dr. Kristen Bastug, and Dr. Beth Thielen discuss a case of a 7 year old girl who presented with new onset seizure, headache, and fever in Minnesota.
Drs. Nahid Hiermandi and Kristen Valencia Deray discuss a case of fever and cough in an adolescent lung transplant recipient.
Welcome to Febrile’s Curious Congenital Conundrums Part 2!! Drs. Gunjan Mhapankar and Justin Penner discuss approaching a call about a mother of a NICU baby with a new blistering rash.
Welcome to Febrile’s Curious Congenital Conundrums Part 2!! Drs. Fionnuala Ryan and Alasdair Bamford discuss a NICU consult for neonatal sepsis with hepatosplenomegaly, rash, and elevated ferritin
Drs. Pratik Patel, Kevin Messacar, and Robin Patel provide a primer on molecular diagnostics, from the basics of DNA and RNA to navigating PCR and metagenomic next generation sequencing.
Drs. Jimmy McCluskey and Alice Sato discuss multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C)
Dr. Saima Aslam gives an introduction to bacteriophage therapy!
Drs. James Wilson and Ryan Maves break down two episodes of fever in a returning traveler
Drs. Sarah May Johnson and Fani Ladomenou discuss a case of neonatal HSV in the fourth case of the Febrile “Curious Congenital Conundrums” series
Dr. Justin Penner joins Sara for this Febrile Digest to announce our upcoming series “Curious Congenital Conundrums” and to introduce the “SCORTCH” framework for congenital infections!