Emergency Medicine Cases Podcast: Bronchiolitis

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Episode 59:This EM Cases episode is on the diagnosis and management of Bronchiolitis. Bronchiolitis is one of the most common diagnoses made in both general and pediatric EDs, and like many pediatric illnesses, theres a wide spectrum of severity of illness as well as a huge variation in practice in treating these children. Bronchiolitis rarely requires any work up yet a lot of resources are used unnecessarily. We need to know when to worry about these kids, as most of them will improve with simple interventions and can be discharged home, while a few will require complex care. Sometimes its difficult to predict which kids will do well and which kids wont.With the help of Dr. Dennis Scolnik, the clinical fellowship program director at Torontos only pediatric emergency department and Dr. Sanjay Mehta, an amazing educator who you might remember from his fantastic work on our Pediatric Ortho episode, well sort through how to assess the child with respiratory illness, how to predict which kids might run into trouble, and what the best evidence-based management of these kids is.