Table Of Contenti
Pediatric Emergency
Radiology
What Do I Do Now?: Emergency Medicine
SERIES EDITOR-I N-C HIEF
Catherine A. Marco, MD, FACEP
Professor, Emergency Medicine & Surgery
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
Dayton, Ohio
OTHER VOLUMES IN THE SERIES:
Pediatric Medical Emergencies
Pediatric Traumatic Emergencies
Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine
Psychiatric Emergencies
Disaster Preparedness and Response
Pediatric Emergency Radiology
Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine (forthcoming)
Critical Care Emergencies (forthcoming)
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Pediatric Emergency
Radiology
Edited by
Ann Dietrich
Associate Editor
Gayathri Sreedher
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Contents
Contributors vii
1. Walking and Wheezing 1
Rajesh Krishnamurthy and Beth Bubolz
2. Fast- Breathing Baby 9
Ajay K. Puri, Mantosh S. Rattan, and Melissa A. McGuire
3. Green Vomit . . . Ewwww!!! 25
Esther Ro, Yamini Jadcherla, and Maegan S. Reynolds
4. What’s That in the Diaper? 37
Maegan S. Reynolds, Yamini Jadcherla, and Esben Vogelius
5. My Baby Won’t Poop! 49
Yamini Jadcherla, Narendra Shet, and Maegan S. Reynolds
6. Breathing through a Straw 59
Gina Pizzitola, David Teng, and Peter Assaad
7. Drooling, Drooling, Drooling All the Way Home 67
Brooke Lampl, Nkeiruka Orajiaka, and Meika Eby
8. Burn, Baby, Burn 75
Cory Gotowka, Ailish Coblentz, and Michael Stoner
9. To Wheeze or Not to Wheeze 89
Linda Vachon and Emily Rose
10. I Thought They Fixed Me? 101
Gina Pizzitola, William Mak, and Rachelle Goldfisher
11. Weebly, Wobbly 109
Meika Eby, Nkeiruka Orajiaka, and Lauren May
12. Extreme Extremity 117
Waroot S. Nimjareansuk and Jane S. Kim
13. FOOSHING through the Snow . . . 127
David Fernandez, Bindu N. Setty, and Isabel A. Barata
14. Sentinel Injuries: It’s What’s Inside That Counts 137
Madeline Zito, Summit Shah, Isabel A. Barata,
and Dana Kaplan
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15. What a Pain in the Neck 151
Michael Sperandeo and Gayathri Sreedher
16. Torticollis in a Child with Down Syndrome 165
Kristy Williamson and Rachelle Goldfisher
17. Shouldn’t This Be Connected? 175
Joshua Rocker and Anna Thomas
18. Head First into the Pool 185
Aaron McAllister and Kristol Das
19. Pain in the Back 195
Deanna Margius, Sophia Gorgens, David Foster,
and Shankar Srinivas Ganapathy
20. Why Is This Infant So Fussy? 205
Michelle Greene, Anna Thomas, and Berkeley Bennett
21. Ripping Apart My Heart 221
Thomas P. Conway, George C. Koberlein, and
Francesca M. Bullaro
22. The Unlucky Hit! 231
McKenzie Montana, Robert L. Gates, and Zachary Burroughs
Index 247
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Contributors
Peter Assaad, MD, MPH, MBA Zachary Burroughs, MD
Lurie Children’s Hospital Clinical Assistant Professor
Chicago, IL, USA Emergency Medicine, Division of
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Isabel A. Barata, MS, MD, MBA
Prisma Health Upstate
Professor of Pediatrics and
Greenville, SC, USA
Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Ailish Coblentz, MBBS, FRCPC
Medicine Assistant Professor and Paediatric
Donald and Barbara Zucker Radiologist
School of Medicine at Department of Diagnostic Imaging
Hofstra/ Northwell The Hospital for Sick Children,
Ozone Park, NY, USA University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, CA
Berkeley Bennett, MD, MS
Attending Physician Thomas P. Conway, DO
Department of Emergency Physician Fellow
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatric
The Ohio State University Emergency Medicine
Columbus, OH, USA Cohen Children’s Medical Center
Astoria, NY, USA
Beth Bubolz, MD
Assistant Professor Kristol Das, MD
Department of Pediatrics Fellow
The Ohio State University College Department of Pediatric
of Medicine Emergency Medicine
Lewis Center, OH, USA Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH, USA
Francesca M. Bullaro, MD
Associate Trauma Medical Director, Ann Dietrich, MD
Assistant Professor Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Medicine, University of South
Cohen Children’s Medical Center Carolina College of Medicine
Northwell Health Department of Emergency Medicine
Garden City, NY, USA Division Chief Pediatric
Emergency Medicine, PRISMA
Greenville, SC, USA
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Meika Eby, MD, FAAP Rachelle Goldfisher, MD
Department of Pediatrics Associate Chief
Nationwide Children’s Department of Pediatric
Hospital, The Ohio State Radiology
University Northwell Health
Columbus, OH, USA Queens, NY, USA
David Fernandez, MD Sophia Gorgens, MD
Chief Resident- Education Resident
Department of Emergency Medicine Department of Emergency
Northwell: Northshore- LIJ Medicine
Hospital Zucker- Northwell North Shore/
Astoria, NY, USA Long Island Jewish
Manhasset, NY, USA
David Foster, MD, MS
Assistant Professor Cory Gotowka, DO, MS
Departments of Emergency Pediatric Hospitalist
Medicine and Pediatrics UPMC Hamot
Associate Director EM Residency Erie, PA
Program, Northwell Health,
Michelle Greene, DO
Zucker School of Medicine
Assistant Professor
Manhasset, NY, USA
Division of Emergency Medicine,
Shankar Srinivas Ganapathy, Department of Pediatrics
MBBS, MD The Ohio State University
Pediatric Radiologist, Associate College of Medicine, and
Professor of Radiology Nationwide Children’s
at NEOMED Hospital, Columbus, OH
Department of Radiology Columbus, OH, USA
Akron Children’s Hospital
Yamini Jadcherla, MD
Akron, OH, USA
Pediatric Emergency
Robert L. Gates, MD Medicine Fellow
Professor Department of Pediatric
Department of Surgery Emergency Medicine
University of South Carolina Nationwide Children’s Hospital
School of Medicine— Greenville Galena, OH, USA
Greenville, SC, USA
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Dana Kaplan, MD Deanna Margius, MD
Director of Child Abuse and Neglect Resident
Department of Pediatrics Department of Emergency Medicine
Staten Island University Hospital Hofstra Northwell NS- LIJ
Marlboro, NJ, USA Manhasset, NY, USA
Jane S. Kim, MD Lauren May, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Nemours Children’s Hospital,
Radiology Delaware, Wilmington, DE
Division of Diagnostic Imaging Clinical Assistant Professor
and Radiology Department of Radiology and
Children’s National Hospital Pediatrics
Kensington, MD, USA Sidney Kimmel School of Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University
George C. Koberlein, MD
Philadelphia, PA
Associate Professor
Department of Radiology Aaron McAllister, MS, MD
Atrium Health at Wake Forest Baptist Assistant Professor
Winston- Salem, NC, USA Department of Radiology
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Rajesh Krishnamurthy, MD
Columbus, OH, USA
Director, Cardiothoracic Imaging
Department of Radiology Melissa A. McGuire, MD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital Assistant Professor and Associate
Dublin, OH, USA Program Director of Northwell
Health CCMC Pediatric
Brooke Lampl, DO, FAOCR
Emergency Medicine Fellowship
Staff Radiologist/ Clinical Assistant
Department of Emergency Medicine
Professor of Radiology
Northwell Health, Cohen
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
Children’s Medical Center and
Cleveland Clinic
North Shore University Hospital
Pepper Pike, OH, USA
Massapequa Park, NY, USA
William Mak, DO
McKenzie Montana, DO
Attending Physician
Resident Physician
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Cohen Children’s Medical Center
Prisma Health- Upstate
Flushing, NY, USA
Greenville, SC, USA
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