Pediatric Emergency Medicine Reports articles from January 2002

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Reports archives from January 2002

Inborn errors of metabolism in infants: recognition, diagnosis, and management.
January 1, 2002... Inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) often present as acute episodes that require hospital attention and emergency care. The clinical suspicion of an IEM is essential, since the collection of appropriate laboratory samples during an episode of...

Physician CME questions.(continuing medical education questions)
January 1, 2002... 1. Which one of the following statements is true regarding IEM? A. They are a homogeneous group of disorders. B. They are mainly autosomal dominant diseases. C. Some may be diagnosed by newborn blood screening. D. There is...

Ring of fire: CDC plan to immunize around first smallpox cases has the devil in the details; used successfully to eradicate smallpox in 1980.(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
January 1, 2002... Should a bioterrorist strike with smallpox, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) recently released response plan calls for investigators to rapidly immunize a "ring" around the first cases. The ring concept calls for...

Health workers, contacts priority for vaccination; others include lab personnel and waste disposal.(smallpox vaccination plans)
January 1, 2002... According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the following groups should be a high priority for smallpox vaccination should a bioterrorism release of the pathogen occur: 1. Face-to-face close contacts (less than or...

Smallpox or chickenpox? How to make the diagnosis; rash progression, location, will be different.
January 1, 2002... Smallpox or chickenpox? That clinical question has been long confined to the academic dustbin in the United States, where the last case of smallpox (variola) was diagnosed in 1949 in Texas. Smallpox has been vanquished yet is still feared;...