Intense smelling bouts of diarrhea following the use of antibiotics that requires hospitalization and a course of IV vancomycin.
What is CDIFF or what is clostridium difficile?
A commonly swallowed household item children are brought to the ER to have removed by a surgeon.
What are household magnets?
This type of genetic mutation causes a sixth digit to grow on the hands and toes.
This is a common reason children come to the hospital and leave with a diagnosis of DKA. What is the condition they have called?
What is diabetic ketoacidosis?
Indicates a woman is in active labor.
What is cervical dilation with contractions.
Bouts of purulent smelling bloody diarrhea.
What is a gastric bleed or what is a GI bleed?
A common reason children are brought to the ER to have something removed from their nostril. What did they put up there?
A head larger than a newborn's shoulders that is typically full of excess cerebral spinal fluid.
What is Megacephaly or Hydrocephaly.
What is neuropathy?
What is Rh factor incompatibility?
Mucous coated bowel movements with necrotic smell.
What is cystic fibrosis related steatorrhea.
The National Institute of Health reports 42% of these foreign bodies are inserted rectally and removed in ER's across the country with an ocurance of 1 removal every month.
What are glass and plastic bottles?
A fluid filled sac noted upon the birth on an infant that occurs on the lower spine.
What is myelomeningocele?
Most common reason for diabetic foot amputation.
What is Charcot foot.
A maneuver done in an attempt to save a breech baby from having to be born via cesarean section.
What is the Leopold maneuver?
A life threatening flesh eating bacteria that causes tissues to die and rot.
What is necrotizing fasciitis?
What is a pneumothorax or hemothorax?
An aging disorder in children that causes them to age rapidly within their first few years of life appearing old.
What is progeria?
This indicates a patient is no longer in diabetic ketoacidosis.
A woman that completes delivery of her baby after only being in labor for up to 3 hours.
What is a precipitous birth?
An insect that burrows under the skin and leaves it's larvae there.
What is a bot fly?
When a developing embryo only partially separates to form twins this disorder is called...
What is conjoined twins?
A common reason that patients having an insulin pump come to the ER.
An emergency that occurs after the delivery of a baby when the fundus of the uterus becomes boggy and there is excess of 500 mL blood loss.
What is a postpartum hemorrhage?