Hippo Education and PECARN

Join Jason Woods and Julia Magana for another slice of PECARN Pie! This time, they sit down with Dr. Rohit Shenoi, Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, to discuss the association of physical activity, sports participation and screen time with high risk adolescent behaviors.

Welcome back for another slice of PECARN Pie! This time Jason Woods, Julia Magaña, and Todd Florin sit down to discuss the febrile infant and clarify when and why to order a chest x-ray.

A question of continuing importance is when and how to use imaging studies which expose children to radiation, particularly in the setting of acute trauma. Join Jason Woods, Julia Magaña, and James Holmes as they discuss PECARN prediction rules for CT imaging of children present with blunt abdominal trauma.

Join Jason Woods, Julia Magaña, and Christopher Rees for another slice of PECARN pie, as they discuss the use of analgesics, specifically intranasal fentanyl, among children with sickle cell disease and vast-occlusive pain.

Join Jason Woods, Julia Magaña, and Katherine Remick for another slice of PECARN pie, as they discuss pediatric readiness. Pediatric readiness is practical with evidenced based processes that health systems, institutions, offices, and clinicians can undertake to improve their ability to care for children.

PECARN has derived and validated another clinical prediction rule, this time for blunt cervical spine trauma. Jason Woods and Julia Magaña sit down with Julie Leonard, the lead author of the June 2024 publication, to review this rule.

During the pandemic, visits for firearm injuries doubled in the U.S. Join Jason Woods, Julia Magaña, and Jennifer Hoffmann as they review the trends of firearm injuries among children and discuss strategies for promoting gun safety in the home.

Jason Woods, Nathan Kupperman, and Julia Magaña are back to review another PECARN study published in Pediatrics in October 2022. Join in as they discuss the association of urinalysis findings and the likelihood of invasive bacterial infection.

Join Jason Woods, Julia Magana, and Angela Ellison, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Vice Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Philadelphia, as they discuss guidelines for the work-up and management of a febrile patient with sickle cell.

Jason Woods, Julia Magana, and David Brousseau, Professor of Pediatrics and Section Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin/Children’s Wisconsin, discuss the acute treatment of sickle cell disease in the ED or urgent care for patients who present primarily for pain.

Drs. Jason Woods and Julie Magaña discuss the utility of urinalysis in infants <60 days old with Dr. Leah Tzimenatos, Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of California Davis

Did ED encounters of child abuse increase or decrease during the COVID lockdowns? In this bonus COVID piece from Hippo Education and the PECARN Network, pediatric emergency physicians, Drs. Julia Magana and Jason Woods chat with Dr. Barbara Chaiyachati, a child abuse pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at University of Pennsylvania.

Jason Woods and Julie Magaña discuss treatment of seizures and status epilepticus in the Emergency Department, with Jim Chamberlain, Director of Data Analytics and Informatics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s National Hospital.

Nathan Kuppermann joins Julia Magaña and Jason Woods to break down their latest research studying severe outcomes in pediatric COVID patients. Get critical insights into what risk factors matter when evaluating pediatric COVID patients, and how this hot-off-the-press study changed these experts’ practices.

Jason and Julia, co-chairs of dissemination for PECARN, discuss mental health screening with Dr. Jackie Grupp Phelan, Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine UCSF Vice Chair.

Jason and Julia discuss the diagnosis of pneumonia with Dr. Todd Florin, Associate Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Sol and Nate Kuppermann continue their discussion of fluid management and risk for cerebral edema in pediatric patients with DKA.

The febrile infant is at risk for infections, but PECARN research has allowed for a simpler evaluation. Sol discusses with Dr. Nate the latest trends in this high-risk population.

Sol continues discussing with Dr. Nick the latest trends in evaluating the risks for infections in febrile infants, and the new research that has allowed for a simpler evaluation.

PECARN data regarding pediatric head injury gives us some evidence-based criteria that can help us risk stratify children in terms of the potential for significant intracranial injury.

Sol and Nate Kuppermann, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at UC Davis, discuss fluid management and risk for cerebral edema in pediatric patients with DKA.

Health care providers across the world have become well-acquainted with caring for those with COVID over the past few years, but what about after the acute illness resolves? Join Nate Kupperman, Julia Magaña, and Jason Woods as they sit down to discuss post-COVID conditions and which children may be at higher risk.