In this course, Dr. Landes, a board-certified pediatrician will teach you about some of the common cases that you will face in the inpatient pediatrics world.  This will be done through discussing real life case scenarios, how the patients present, how you are able to diagnose them and how to treat according to the latest guidelines

Videos:  6

Duration: 3 hours and 2 minutes

CME: 3

Topics discussed in this course:

Approach to caring for the hospitalized child

Utilizing the caregivers as historians

Establishing rapport with the parent

Safety and weight based interventions in pediatrics

Developing age-appropriate exam skills

Understanding seasonal patterns in pediatric illness

Triaging problems and organizing differential diagnoses in pediatric patients

Identifying most frequent admitting diagnoses for children with and without special medical needs

Preparing the physical environment for a pediatric admission

Multiple case-based vignettes for several of the top inpatient pediatric diagnoses including:

Asthma exacerbation

Viral bronchiolitis

Gastroenteritis with dehydration

Evaluation of Abdominal Pain

Community Acquired Pneumonia

Skin & Soft Tissue Infections

And in each vignette – we explore:

Typical and atypical disease presentations

Key elements of history and physical

Clinical complications and warning signs

Alternative diagnostic strategies

Construction of complete differential diagnosis

Initiating a treatment plan

Standard of care recommendations

Identifying clinical complications and severe disease progression

Appropriate discharge planning and follow up plans

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