The Numbered Pediatric Rashes Revisited
I have been seeing a lot of second disease and fifth disease—it's that time of year. School is back in session, and winter is just around the corner.The rash-numbering system for these diseases is now a historical footnote, but fifth disease is still commonly used by physicians to refer to erythema infectiosum, a parvovirus. I suspect that this system was created as a memory device for similar names and the obscure Latin terms used for these diseases. Erythema infectiosum is also easy to confuse with the many other erythema rashes such as erythema migrans, erythema marginatum, erythema toxicum, and erythema multiforme...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - December 2, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 289
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It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 289 (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 9, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mark Corden Tags: FFFF Aspiration blue sclera Children choking coughing FB febrile convulsions Foreign Body head trauma Human saliva kids osteogenesis imperfecta Paediatrics pediatrics roseola vomiting wheezing Source Type: blogs
TWiV 505: Rosebola
The TWiV hosts review persistence of Ebola virus after the end of the Liberian outbreak, and the potential role of two herpesviruses in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span>&lt;span data-mce-type=̶...
Source: virology blog - August 5, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology alzheimer's disease ebola virus exanthem subitum herpesvirus hhv-6 HHV-7 human herpesvirus persistence recrudescence roseola transmission viral viruses Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 010 Fever, Arthralgia and Rash
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Peer Reviewer: Dr Jennifer Ho, ID physician QLD, Australia
You are an ED doc working in Perth over schoolies week. An 18 yo man comes into ED complaining of fever, rash a “cracking headache” and body aches. He has just hopped off the plane from Bali where he spent the last 2 weeks partying, boozing and running amok. He got bitten by “loads” of mosquitoes because he forgot to take insect repellent.
On examination he looks miserable,...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 16, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Amanda McConnell Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine arthralgia dengue fever rash Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 130
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 130
Question 1
Lady Windermere Syndrome (named after Oscar Wilde’s play) refers to infection of the right middle lobe of the lung (or lingula) with Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) in elderly women. What predisposing activity does this eponym allude to?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 19, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Niall Hamilton Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Tocoloshe MAC exanthems heroin Rinderpest Mycobacterium avium complex Lady Windermere Syndrome Source Type: blogs
