Announcements:

Check your email for holiday schedule details.

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Postnatal management of common antenatal ultrasound findings

Announcements:

The ED will no longer being calling us for team assignments for bed slips. They will put down the color of the day (determined by what team the admitting senior is on) and the appropriate attending for general patients. For subspecialty patients, they should just put down the service and the respective attending.

Please remember to call down at 7am every day for hold-over admissions from 5-7am.

Upcoming events:

October 16, 2004, Saturday, 2-4pm: Annual Pediatric Memorial Service in the DCAM, 4th Floor Atrium. The service is held each year to honor children who have touched our lives. The service will include music, readings, a time for children, words of support, and children's names. A reception will be held immediately following the service.

October 23, 2004

Comer Kid's Classic 5K run/walk and kids' dash at 10am. Begins at 58th and University in the Quad. Pre-register on line by October 19th at www.chicagoevents.com

October 24, 2004

City-wide Chicago Pediatric Residents' Lunch at Cafe Iberico at 1pm.

Sponsored by Mead Johnson Co.

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Syphilis

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PID & Fitz-Hugh–Curtis Syndrome

Announcements:

Morning report will be in H103 tomorrow due to some work that will be done in C140.

Please accept NICU transfers graciously. When the census is high, they need to send babies to the RN (if there is no IV needed) and to the floor to allow for maternal transports and other critically ill neonates to be admitted. 

IF you're interested in earning $100 as a CPR instructor on 9/24, please contact David Silver. See our announcement from September 1st.

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Pyloric Stenosis

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Welcome back newylwed Josh!

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Dermatology Morning Report, Dr. Sarah Stein

Acute Rheumatic Fever, Dr. Wagner-Weiner

Neonatal Cholestasis, Dr. Neil Graham

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Next week on Wednesday and Friday, morning report will be temporarily moved to a new room as C-140 is rennovated. Location TBA.

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Sleep, Dr.Stacy Kahn

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Ethics Morning Report

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Please ensure that you are writing down all home medications on your orders with the doses/frequency so that pharmacy and the RNs can have these medications appear on the MAR to check doses and administration. It is okay to write "okay to take home medications" as long as you specify the dose and frequency.

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Dermatology, Dr. Sarah Stein

ADHD, Dr. Alyna Chien

References:

www.nichq.org (for Tool Kit)

www.dbpeds.org (for Clinical Attention Problem Scale)

Announcements:

For discharges, please make sure that the orders are being written as early in the day as possible (even before morning report if cleared with your attending) and that prescriptions are also in the chart when you write the discharge order in order to facilitate the process.

NICU Graduates Reunion Party. You're invited. Sunday, September 12th in the DCAM 4th Floor Atrium from 1-4pm.

Recruitment meeting at noon today.

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Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn , Dr. Bree Andrews

Conference:

Child Abuse, Dr. Veena Ramaiah

Illinois criminal code - sexual

Check your email for these additional resourcs and reference articles:

Chart of Illinois sex crimes

Freidrich, WN Normative Sexual Behavior in Chidlren: A Contemporary Sample. Pediatrics 1998; 101(4)

AAP Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect. Guidelines for the Evaluation of Sexual Abuse of Children: Subject Review Pediatrics 1999; 103(1)

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Tetralogoy of Fallot, Dr. Heather Christiansen

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Periorbital Cellulitis

Noon Conference:

Reference: Levine LS. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. Pediatrics in Review 2000; 21:159-171.

Happy Labor Day!

No conferences.

Announcements:

Seniors please make sure you're calling down to the ED at 7am when you are on call to learn about any "hold-over" admissions from 5-7am.

Volunteer opportunity: Staff the start/finish line or rest stops during the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation's 16th Annual Boulevard Lakefront Tour (35 miles)on September 12th. Approximate times are from 9am to 1pm. Contact Anne Hatcher at (312) 427-3325 x241 or at anneh@biketraffic.org to sign up. Check out www.biketraffic.org/BLT for more information.

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Caustic Ingestions

Announcements:

Make $100 teaching CPR to medical students. The medical school needs to prepare incoming students for Basic Life Support on Friday, September 24th, from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. They will be paying all instructors $100.00. Contact David Silver if you are interested.

The 8th Annual Pediatric Day is October 14th. Register with Maria Corpuz. The conference schedule includes:

The Diana Woo Memorial Lecture:

"The Power of Outcome: Measuring Long-Term Disability to Change the Way We Care for Very Preterm Babies"

Barbara Schmidt, MD

Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

McMaster University

"Evaluation and Treatment of Scoliosis in Children”

Peter Sturm, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery (Orthopedic Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine)

"Common Urologic Problems in Children”

Clare Close, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery (Urology)

"Neck Masses in the Pediatric Age Group”

Dana Suskind, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics (Otolaryngology)

"Neurosurgical Lumps, Bumps, Pocks and Divots”

Daniel Curry, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery)

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Optic Neuritis