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Pediatrics in Practice
by Children's Mercy - Pediatrics in Practice
Pediatrics in Practice provides interviews with pediatric subspecialists on timely, relevant content for physicians and providers who care for children.
Episodes
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EMS Timely Tips: Pediatric Drowning
Every summer children and families are drawn to oceans, pools, ponds, lakes, rivers, or streams for entertainment and exercise. As prehospital providers know all too well, fun events and gatherings near bodies of water can turn into an emergency setting in an instant. Although drowning injuries…
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New Asthma Guidelines: A Paradigm Shift in Asthma Management
The national Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) published the first expert panel report on the diagnosis and management of asthma in 1991. A comprehensive revision was published in 1997, and an update in 2002. the EPR 3 was published in 2007. The most recent guidelines, published in...
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Common Cases in Dermatology: Atopic Dermatitis
In this episode, Dr, Brandon Newell and NP Rebecca Flynn leads an interactive discussion on some of the more common cases seen in dermatology.
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Idiopathic Congenital Clubfoot
Idiopathic congenital clubfoot occurs in 1 in 1,000 infants in the U.S. and is considered the most prevalent musculoskeletal birth defect in the world. In this podcast, Richard Schwend, MD, FAOA, FAAP, Interim Chair, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Science at Children’s Mercy...
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EMS Timely Tips: Tranexamic Acid (TXA) use in Pediatric Trauma
Massive transfusion protocols have become vital tools used within trauma centers across the country. Appropriately so, as many emergency providers know that hemorrhage is the most common cause of death within the first hour of arrival to a trauma center. Most recently, a medication called...
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Food Insecurity Screening in the Allergy Specialty
Did you know that more than 1 in 5 children with food allergies also experience food insecurity (FI)? Children whose families struggle to acquire adequate nutrition are at higher risk for a wide range of conditions, including asthma, obesity and mental health issues. In this podcast, you’ll hear...
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Evaluating Pediatric Obesity
Currently 1 out of every 5 children (18.5%) meets the body mass index criteria for obesity (BMI ? 95th percentile). With this in mind, it’s important for providers to consider many factors when diagnosing and assessing a child for obesity. Kelsee Halpin, MD, MPH, pediatric endocrinologist at...
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Evaluating Abnormal Menstrual Patterns
Girls and adolescents with more than 3 months between periods or those that remain otherwise irregular 2 years after menarche, should be evaluated for underlying causes. Emily Paprocki, DO, pediatric endocrinologist at Children’s Mercy Kansas City, discusses more on this topic and what to look…
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Evaluating Abnormal Thyroid
Between 25-50% of the referrals to a pediatric endocrinology clinic are related to abnormal thyroid function tests (TFTs). However, the majority of these abnormal TFTs are not associated with a true thyroid problem, especially when these tests are ordered in the absence of any signs or symptoms...
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Evaluating Growth Failure
When it comes to growth failure, many factors are involved. How short is the child? Is the child’s height velocity impaired? Is the child’s height/growth within the range for the family? In this podcast, Francesco De Luca, MD, Division Director of Pediatric Endocrinology at Children’s Mercy…
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Mind-Body Techniques for Pregnancy and Postpartum
Maternal stress, while natural and common, can lead to adverse health outcomes. Based on her research, Shilpa Babbar, MD, OB/Gyn-Maternal and Fetal Medicine at Children’s Mercy Kansas City, describes mind-body therapies and interventions, such as muscle relaxation, biofeedback, tai chi, yoga,...
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Managing Depression, Anxiety and ADHD in the Pediatric Population
Prevalence of depression, anxiety and ADHD continues to rise in the pediatric and adolescent population. Effective therapies are available for each of these conditions, although medication management can sometimes be problematic in the primary care setting. In this podcast, Ram Chettiar, DO…
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EMS Timely Tips: Pediatric Sports Injury Management
Whether it’s on the practice field or under the lights on Friday night, when kids play sports, injuries can occur. Unlike adults, their brains and bodies are still growing and developing, even when they’re playing sports at an elite level. The care that coaches, athletic trainers, and EMS…
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Functional Abdominal Pain, IBS and Auricular Neurostimulation
In this podcast, Dr. Krasaelap explains the brain-gut connection and what can happen when this is dysregulated. Listen as she describes misconceptions about abdominal pain and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and treatment options that exist – including the novel, FDA-approved auricular...
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Managing Cystic Fibrosis - Outcomes, Challenges and Treatment Developments
In this podcast, Christopher Oermann, MD, Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Care Center at Children's Mercy Kansas City, discusses the current state of cystic fibrosis, developments and research underway, and how primary care providers can partner in managing the overall health of patients with...
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EMS Timely Tips: Recognizing and Reporting Sexual Exploitation/Human Commercial Sex Trafficking
Human trafficking often seems like a far-off crime in a movie that couldn’t possibly be happening in our communities. However, it’s far more common in the United States than people realize. Moreover, many trafficking victims (88%) have sought health care at some point while they were being...
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PedsGuide App: Pediatric Decision Support at Your Fingertips
Created by a multidisciplinary team of pediatric experts, the Children's Mercy Ped's Guide App puts evidence-based resources—dose recommendations, drip calculations, resuscitation guides and more—right at your fingertips. Listen as Brandan Kennedy, MD, discusses the app, its features, and the...
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Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Carcinoma (Diagnosis, Treatment and Long-term Management))
The Thyroid Nodule and Carcinoma Clinic at Children’s Mercy Kansas City is the only pediatric clinic of its kind in the region to provide the comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and long-term management of thyroid nodules and differentiated carcinoma. In this episode, Naim Mitre, MD,...
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EMS Timely Tips: Endocrine Emergencies in the Pre-Hospital Setting
Endocrine disorders, specifically for pediatric patients, pose complex considerations in care based on the type of disorder and an individual’s course of therapy. For this reason, Children’s Mercy manages programs across the region, providing endocrinology care from western Kansas to south…
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Common Cases for ENT
Pamela Nicklaus, MD, FACS, discusses protocols surrounding common ENT cases and referrals, difficulties that may arise, options for families, and therapies/support.
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Return to Play in the Pediatric Athlete After COVID-19 Infection
In the adult population, COVID-19 infections appear to affect the heart at a higher rate than other viruses, while in the pediatric population, the virus can cause multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) involving the heart. Due to the lack of evidence for cardiac injury from COVID-19…
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Preparing to Launch-Preparing to Land: Transition to Adulthood Intervention
Pediatrics in Practice: Ann Modrcin, MD, EMBA, discusses the pediatric transition to adult care and best practices to achieve it. She also discusses values and pain points for families, and how providers can provide support through the transition.
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Hematology Dilemmas: Cases for the General Pediatrician
Struggling with an abnormal value on a screening complete blood count (CBC)? Frustrated that a toddler refuses to take oral iron? Wondering what to do when the 12 month screening hemoglobin comes back a little low? This podcast is for you! We will discuss common hematologic dilemmas in pediatric...
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Headache Diagnostics
Anna Esparham, MD, Director of the Headache Treatment Center at Children's Mercy, discusses primary versus secondary headaches, causes of migraines/headaches, treatment approaches, and differences between prevention and abortive therapies.
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EMS Timely Tips: Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autism is one of the fastest-growing developmental disabilities in the United States, affecting approximately 1 in 54 births. For the safety of emergency medical providers and patients with developmental disabilities, it is important to understand what Autism is and how to care for pediatric...
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Comfort Promise
Amanda Deacy PhD discusses comfort promise. She shares the concept of Comfort Promise and a quality improvement (QI) project she's leading in GI to assess gaps in documentation of the pain prevention bundle in order to better measure its uptake and success rate.
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Beta-lactam Antibiotic Allergies
While approximately 10% of US adults and children claim a penicillin allergy, only 1/20 with a reported allergy are truly allergic. Additionally, 80% of patients with IgE mediated penicillin allergy lose sensitivity after 10 years. It is important to clarify and de-label patients to ensure they...
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Addressing Anxiety and Depression in Teens
Dr. Shayla Sullivant shares warning signs of anxiety and depression in teens, how to talk to your teen about their feelings, and when you should seek professional help.
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Bellyaches, Bowels and Barfs
The most common reasons that children are seen by pediatric gastroenterologists relate to their bellyaches, bowels, and barfs. A simple approach to these disorders can guide general practitioners to help families find relief from these distressing symptoms.Dr. John Rosen explains when you might...
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Acute Evaluation of Sports injuries and What to Do in the Office
Sports related injuries are on the rise with increasing child and adolescent participation. Many training programs do not cover how to evaluate and treat these patients in the subacute setting. Listen as Donna Pacicca, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon and Sports Medicine specialist with the Sports Medicine...
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Dysmenorrhea
Dysmenorrhea is the most common gyencologic complaint in adolescent females, affecting more than half of this population. Julie Strickland, MD, Section Chief of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology at Children's Mercy, discusses causes, diagnoses and treatment of this painful condition.
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What and When to Refer to Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Female reproductive health is critical in growing girls and young women. Julie Strickland, MD, Section Chief of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, joins us for this episode of Pediatrics in Practice to talk about the need for pediatric and adolescent gynecologists, the conditions they treat and...
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Pediatric Enuresis
Enuresis or bedwetting is a common childhood problem, affecting 5 to 7 million children in the United States each year. By age 7, about 5-10 percent of all children are still wet at night. While 15 percent of kids will outgrow bedwetting without intervention every year, waiting and watching to…
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Pediatric Uveitis
So you think rheumatology is all about joint pain? Think again. Rheumatologists treat a wide array of autoimmune conditions affecting nearly every part of the body- even the eyes. Uveitis is an inflammatory eye condition that can be caused by infection, underlying autoimmune diseases such as...
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Lean In: Addressing Teen Suicide Risk When Nobody Trained You For This
Dr. Shayla Sullivant discusses warning signs of suicide in teens, and how address it with patients.
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Influenza, Test or Treat?
Every year, influenza causes many people to become ill. All children 6 months and age and older should receive a yearly flu vaccine. Vaccination remains the best way to prevent influenza. Symptoms of influenza include abrupt onset of fever, myalgias, headache, nonproductive cough, sore throat and...
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Developmental Screening: Navigating the Pediatrician Visits
The AAP recommends conducting general developmental screening at 9, 18, and 30 months, or whenever a concern is expressed. In addition, autism-specific screening is recommended at ages 18 and 24 months of age. When families arrive for their child's well-visits, how can each pediatrician be sure…
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Common Kidney Conundrums
Enuresis, hematuria and proteinuria are common pediatric kidney disorders, but the when do these problems warrant a referral to a pediatric nephrologist? What red flag symptoms require more urgent consultation and evaluation? New specialty-specific guidelines from the "Choosing Wisely" campaign...
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Positive Antinuclear Antibody: What Now?
“Positive ANA” is one of the most common reasons for referral to the pediatric rheumatology clinic. The antinuclear antibody (ANA) is often mistakenly considered a good screening test for rheumatic disease. Dr. Ashley Cooper, Interim Division Director of Pediatric Rheumatology, discusses what it...
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Common Orthopedic Conditions and How to Treat Them
Orthopedic conditions can cause pain and dysfunction, causing aches and pains in bones and joints. Mobility and activity may be limited by these conditions. Polly Wimer, CPNP, APRN discusses common orthopedic conditions and their treatment.
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The Opioid-Pain Nexus: Current Opioid Use and Safety
Although there has been less emphasis on responsible prescribing of opioids in children, with newly developed legal and regulatory efforts focused almost exclusively on adults, it remains important for pediatric providers to be aware of the heightened risk for substance misuse in adolescents, and...
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Primary Care for Pediatric Cancer Survivors
As pediatric cancer survival rates continue to improve, we are faced with a new set of health challenges in caring for these survivors. Joy Fulbright, MD, Director of the Survive and Thrive program at Children’s Mercy Kansas City, discusses health concerns after cancer treatment, what primary…
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Previously Untreated Patients with Hemophilia Matter
As regional hemophilia treatment center, Children's Mercy follows more than 900 patients with bleeding disorders. Listen as Shannon Carpenter, MD, pediatric hematologist/oncologist and director of the Hemophilia Treatment Center at Children's Mercy Kansas City, discusses hemophilia A and B in...
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Kids and Kidney Stones
Kidney stones in children have been on the rise for more than a decade, mostly due to hypercalciuria and hypocitraturia. Join us as Uri Alon, MD, Director of the Bone and Mineral Disorders Clinic at Children’s Mercy Kansas City, discusses what is behind the increasing incidence of kidney stones,...
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Pediatric Sleep Apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea is a common but serious condition that inhibits healthy, restful sleep and may lead to learning, behavior and physical health issues in children. Zarmina Ehsan, MD discusses obstructive sleep apnea in infants and children, why it’s necessary to conduct a sleep study to...
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Evaluation and Management of Infants of Diabetic Mothers
The prevalence of gestational diabetes is increasing due to increasing rates of obesity. Gestational diabetes increases the chances of adverse outcomes for both the mother and infant. In this Pediatrics in Practice podcast Jessica Brunkhorst, MD, neonatologist, reviews fetal anomalies and...
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Bacterial Infection in Neonates and Young Infants
Infants under 90 days old with fever can present a diagnostic dilemma. Join us as Russell McCulloh, MD discusses unresolved issues and common conundrums faced by front-line clinicians in the evaluation of neonatal fever, recent literature on laboratory testing for infants with fever, and…
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Marijuana and Adolescents: Truths and Consequences
Numerous states have legalized or are considering legalization of marijuana. The AAP recently published an evidence-based position paper and clinical report on marijuana, including medical use. In this podcast, Dr. William Adelman, chief of Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Mercy, discusses why...
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The Importance of FAST Action for Infant and Pediatric Stroke
Strokes in newborns are as common as in adults. Recognition and early intervention is critical to minimizing the damage. Children’s Mercy is one of fewer than 10 pediatric stroke centers nationally, and the region’s first and only dedicated pediatric stroke center offering comprehensive,...
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