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Coding Challenge: Pediatric Orthopedic Injury in Urgent Care

Determine the correct evaluation and management (E/M) service code for this urgent care encounter: SUBJECTIVE: 12-year-old…

Test Your Knowledge of Pediatric Orthopedic Injury Management in Urgent Care (Postscript 2 of 2)

A 7-year-old boy arrives at urgent care with his father. The boy fell off a trampoline…

Test Your Knowledge of Pediatric Orthopedic Injury Management in Urgent Care (Postscript 1 of 2)

A 9-year-old girl is brought to urgent care by her mother with right lateral ankle pain…

Tetanus and Rabies

One of the most fun parts of doing this lecture series has been learning more about…

What’s Your Diagnosis? Children With Macrocephaly

Welcome to this month’s What’s Your Diagnosis Challenge! But before we begin, check to see if…

What’s Your Diagnosis? Pulmonary Embolism

Welcome to this month’s What’s Your Diagnosis Challenge! But before we begin, check to see if…

Risk Management Pitfalls in Children with Acute Asthma

Our recent issue Emergency Department Management of Pediatric Acute Asthma: An Evidence- Based Review reviews the…

Test Your Knowledge: Pediatric Macrocephaly

Although the cause of macrocephaly is found to be benign in many cases, the large differential…

Test Your Knowledge: Pulmonary Embolism in the Emergency Department

Patients with pulmonary emboli present both diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to the emergency clinician, because initial…