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What you need to know about eye emergencies
When a child presents with an eye injury, frontline clinicians should implement this 5-minute eye exam to quickly recognize what treatment is warranted and when to refer to an ophthalmologist.
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The long-reaching impact of congenital cytomegalovirus
image description here Despite the high prevalence of congenital cytomegalovirus, many pediatricians and even obstetricians lack knowledge and awareness of the adverse sequelae of this disease on children.

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What’s causing this fistula?
image description here The mother of a healthy 4-week-old boy brings him to the office for evaluation of a small pit on the medial canthus of the left eye, noted since birth. There is constant drainage of tears onto the left side of his face and exudate on the bottom of the left medial canthus.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
 
Prevent medical errors in your practice
6 pieces of old-school pediatric philosophy
Developmental outcomes of positional plagiocephaly
 
CONTEMPORARY PEDIATRICS VIDEO
 
How did prescription guidelines for pneumonia change behaviors?
image description here For Contemporary Pediatrics, Dr Bobby Lazzara discusses a research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics that examined how well children's and non-children's hospitals adopted the 2011 guidelines for prescriptions written for community-acquired pneumonia treatment.
 
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