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Acute Emergencies on the Pediatric Subspecialty Wards

This course discusses common emergency situations in pediatric subspecialties, including cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, oncology and complex care. Learn from experienced clinicians as they review real-life case scenarios, and discuss how to identify, manage and treat acute care situations you will see frequently in pediatric wards.

Released:

July 13, 2021

Audience

Physicians, Residents

Learning Objectives
  • Recognize signs and symptoms that indicate worsening heart failure

  • Discuss a framework for managing pediatric patients with tachyarrhythmias

  • Initiate an initial work-up for a hypoxemic patient with single ventricle heart disease

  • List steps of examining a patient with respiratory distress

  • Identify targeted therapies for managing hemoptysis

  • Describe initial therapy for acute pancreatitis

  • Perform appropriate treatment for a patient with central line associated blood stream infection

  • Identify optimal interventions for management of patients with fever, neutropenia, and risk for serious bacterial infections

  • Develop an approach to diagnosis and management of new fever in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant patient

  • Learn how to manage tumor lysis syndrome

  • Identify aspects of a complex care patient's history that could contribute to respiratory changes

Lessons
  • Tachyarrhythmias

  • Shunt Thrombosis

  • Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

  • Management of Severe Asthma Exacerbation and Recognition of Acute Respiratory Failure

  • Acute Respiratory Distress and Failure in the Patient with Cystic Fibrosis

  • Hemoptysis

  • Gastrointestinal Bleeding

  • Sepsis in the Short Gut Patient

  • Pancreatitis

  • Fever and Neutropenia

  • Tumor Lysis Syndrome

  • Sepsis in the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patient

  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant – Electrolyte Concerns

  • Conditioning Side Effects in the Stem Cell Transplant

  • Respiratory Failure in the Complex Care Patient

  • Tracheostomy Primer

  • Tracheostomy Troubleshooting

  • Gastrostomy Tube Primer

  • Gastrostomy Tube Troubleshooting

  • Status Epilepticus on the Pediatric Ward

Author(s)

Nadeen Abujaber, MD
Pediatric Hospitalist, Division of General Pediatrics | Boston Children's Hospital


Lindsey Armstrong, MD, MPH
Pediatric Surgeon, General Surgery | AdventHealth Medical Group


Emily Barsky, MD, MBE
Pediatric Associate Director, Cystic Fibrosis Center | Boston Children's Hospital
Pulmonologist, Division of Pulmonary Medicine | Boston Children's Hospital
Instructor of Pediatrics | Harvard Medical School


Bram Raphael, MD
Director, Home Parenteral Nutrition Program | Boston Children's Hospital
Instructor of Pediatrics | Harvard Medical School


Vassilios J. Bezzerides, MD, PhD
Associate Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology | Boston Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Harvard Medical School


Nina L. Gluchowski, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterologist | University of Vermont Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor | Larner College of Medicine


Robert Graham, MD
Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine | Boston Children's Hospital
Associate Professor of Anaesthesia | Harvard Medical School


Katie A. Greenzang, MD, EdM
Director of Education | Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology Fellowship | Boston Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Harvard Medical School


Amit Grover, MD
Gastroenterologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Director, Pancreatic Disorders Program | Boston Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Harvard Medical School


Kenan Haver, MD
Director, Asthma Program | Boston Children's Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics | Harvard Medical School


Andrew L. Hong, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics | Emory University School of Medicine
Oncologist | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Instructor of Pediatrics | Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center


Michelle Lee, MD, MPH
Pediatrician | Children's Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC)


Leslie Lehmann, MD
Director, Clinical Stem Cell Transplantation Program | Boston Children's Hospital
Medical Director, International Hematology/Oncology/BMT | Boston Children's Hospital
Associate Professor | Harvard Medical School


Michael A. Manfredi, MD
Gastroenterologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Director of the Esophageal and Airway Treatment (EAT) Program | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia


Steven Margossian, MD, PhD
Senior Medical Director | Nuvalent


Jonathan Marron, MD, MPH
Attending Physician, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology | Boston Children's Hospital
Clinical Ethicist | Boston Children's Hospital
Instructor of Pediatrics | Harvard Medical School


Elizabeth Profita, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatric Advanced Cardiac Therapies (PACT) | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University


Steven D. Rosenblatt, MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery | Weill Cornell Medicine – New York Presbyterian Hospital


Anjuli Sinha Campbell, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford


Sarah Teele, MD
Director of Cardiology Safety, Quality, and Clinical Outcomes | Boston Children's Hospital
Senior Associate Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology | Boston Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Harvard Medical School


Ahmet Uluer, DO, MPH
Director, BRIDGES Adult Transition Program
Director, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program | Boston Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Harvard Medical School


Roubing Wang, MD
Pulmonologist, Division of Pulmonary Medicine | Boston Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Harvard Medical School


Nikolaus Wolter, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery | University of Toronto
Otolaryngologist | Hospital for Sick Children

Course Director(s)

Katherine R. Schlosser Metitri, MD
Pediatric Critical Care Specialist | Columbia University
Vice President, Operations | NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital


Traci Wolbrink, MD, MPH
Co-Director, OPENPediatrics
Co-Director, Center for Educational Excellence and Innovation
Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine | Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Anaesthesia | Harvard Medical School

Citation

Schlosser K, Wolbrink TA. Acute Emergencies on the Pediatric Subspecialty Wards. 07/2021. OPENPediatrics. Online Course: https://learn.openpediatrics.org/learn/courses/5146/acute-emergencies-on-the-pediatric-subspecialty-wards.

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