KidBits: Tick-borne Illnesses in Children Due to the nonspecific nature of tick-related illness, combined with decreased body awareness, tick bites and their associated symptoms can often be less conspicuous in children, and easier to overlook or attribute to an alternative diagnosis. This is important to remember, especially with rickettsial disease, because while children represent 6% […]
Exploring Non-Opioid Pain Treatments in the Urgent Care Maureen McCaffrey, PA-C, Medical Editor, Hippo Education Treating acute pain is a challenge we face during every Urgent Care shift. We’re all aware of the devastation that the opioid crisis has had on millions of people worldwide. And this epidemic – marked by addiction, overdose, and unintended […]
A Best Practice from the College of Urgent Care Medicine Diagnosing and Treating Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection and Pyelonephritis in Urgent Care Date Reviewed 09/01/2023 Subject Diagnosing and treating acute uncomplicated acute cystitis and pyelonephritis Patient Population Females 18 years of age and older Rationale Patients with urinary tract infection (UTI) commonly present to Urgent […]
Brad Laymon PA-C, CPC, CEMCSection Editor, Coding Corner SUBJECTIVE 44 y/o established patient here for a recheck of a URI. He was seen at our clinic 3 days ago. He has been ill for a total of 6 days. I reviewed the note on 12/29/22: COVID and Influenza POCT were both negative. CXR was negative […]
Brian Sun, DMD, MS Dental injuries are one of the most common drivers of emergency and Urgent Care visits. Approximately 4.1% of all emergency visits in Australia are attributable to dental traumatic injuries1 and U.S. pediatric providers treat at least one oral trauma every 2 to 3 days.2 A vast majority of the services rendered […]
Jerry W. Jones, MD FACEP FAAEMSection Editor, ECG Corner Are you pretty good at diagnosing lead wire interchanges? How about this one… Do you recognize it? A lot of healthcare providers often diagnose a LA/RA lead wire interchange based on the inverted deflections in Lead I but still struggle with the others. I’m going to […]
Adeeti Gupta MD, FACOG Abstract: Berberine is a plant alkaloid with a long history of medicinal use in both Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine. Berberine HCL has been used and has shown purported benefits in glycemic control, metabolic syndrome, polycystic ovarian syndrome, hyperlipidemia and is being used as an adjunctive therapy in some cancers. Introduction: Berberine […]
Tracey Quail Davidoff, MD, FCUCM Image courtesy of John Manresa, RPA-C An 11-year-old female presents to Urgent Care with complaints of right knee pain. Mom states she has been complaining of a vague pain after exercising and would like an X-ray to make sure there is no pathologic fracture. There was no injury. The radiograph […]
Ivan Koay, MBChB, FRNZCUC, MD A 40-year-old man walks into the Urgent Care center complaining of a painful penis, having woken up a few hours earlier with the pain. He initially woke up with a painful erection. The pain continued but the erection has subsided a little. He denies any trauma, there was no sexual […]
Kick off U.S. Antibiotic Awareness week by joining Guillermo (Memo) Sanchez, PA-C from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Patrick Dolan, MD, for a one-hour presentation brought to you by the College of Urgent Care Medicine. Dr. Dolan serves as the principal investigator in an Urgent Care based study on ABS where […]