A 21-month-old male presented to the emergency department with right upper extremity pain after a fall from a chair. He was initially discharged after unrevealing x-rays of the right upper extremity. However, after being discharged, the patient and his mother were called back in to the emergency department after an attending pediatric radiologist overread the xrays and identified a posterior fat pad…
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Read MoreAn otherwise healthy 3-year-old boy presented to the emergency department, accompanied by his father, for concern of aural foreign body. The patient was playing outside near his family’s gravel driveway and the father witnessed him place a pebble in his ear…
Read MoreA 3-year-old female is brought into the Emergency Department for left arm pain. She was at the park earlier today when she suddenly ran towards the street - her father pulled her back by the arm and felt a slight “click”…
Read MoreAs emergency medicine physicians, we are often in the position of screening for and diagnosing abuse and neglect in childhood…
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