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Do these injuries mean child abuse?
A 5-month-old Hispanic male presented to the emergency department at a children’s hospital in the Northeast United States directly from his daycare after caretakers witnessed 2 shaking, seizure-like episodes. The episodes lasted 1 to 2 minutes in the setting of a fever as palpated by the parents.
What’s the diagnosis?
 
Improve your practice: Patient visits
When you improve the office experience, you will be rewarded with parental loyalty, a busy and prosperous practice, and patients who look forward to their office visits.
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NPF offers a new patient information resource for a pediatric audience
National Psoriasis Foundation has launched a new website specifically designed for the information needs of children and teens who have psoriatic arthritis.
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CALL FOR PUZZLERS
 
Have a puzzling pediatric case that you’d like to share with fellow readers? We’re looking for stories about intriguing diagnoses that have stumped the experts! Check out past Puzzlers.
 
Contact [email protected] requesting our guidelines, then send us your Puzzler and we’ll let you know if your submission for publication has been accepted.
 
CONTEMPORARY PEDIATRICS VIDEO
 
Impact of rapid treatment for pediatric status epilepticus
image description here For Contemporary Pediatrics, Dr Bobby Lazzara discusses a multicenter observational study published in JAMA Neurology that looked at time to treatment in children with refractory convulsive status epilepticus and the impact on mortality.
 
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