
Febrile #82 – Curious Congenital Conundrums – Pox Puzzle
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.
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!

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. Lizzy O’Mahony and Felicity Fitzgerald field a call about persistent fever in a baby boy.

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

Welcome to Febrile’s Curious Congenital Conundrums Part 2!! Drs. Amedine Duret and Liz Whittaker kick off the series with the first episode featuring a mycobacterial malady affecting mother and baby!

Drs. Noah Rosenberg, Nick Palmeri, and Wendy Stead discuss cardiac device infection diagnosis and management from the cardiology/EP and ID perspective!

Welcome to Part 2 of this pair of episodes on management of antimicrobial resistant Gram-negative infections!! Drs. Hawra Al-Lawati and Pranita Tamma walk through the alphabet soup of CRE with 2 mini-cases.

Welcome to Part 1 of this pair of episodes on management of antimicrobial resistant Gram-negative infections!! Drs. Hawra Al-Lawati and Pranita Tamma walk through the alphabet soup of AmpC and ESBL with 3 mini-cases

Luis Plaza from the “Let’s Talk Micro” podcast is our tour guide for the typical expedition that brings patient blood sample to blood culture result!

In Part 2 of this pair of episodes, Drs. Rita Dib and Joseph Sassine zoom through the late infectious complications of CAR-T cell therapy.

In Part 1 of this pair of episodes, Drs. Rita Dib and Joseph Sassine provide a background of CAR-T cell therapy (chimeric antigen receptor T cells) and steer you through the complications that might contribute to fever early after CAR-T.