Charting Pediatrics

En este episodio nos acompaña Carla Torres-Zegerra, MD , para discutir los problemas dermatológicos más comunes en el primer año de vida en español. In this episode we are joined by Carla Torres-Zegerra, MD, to discuss the most common dermatology issues in the first year of life, the episode was recorded in Spanish. You can follow Dr. Torres-Zegerra on Instagram @dermaskinmd where she posts dermat...

Drowning is quick and silent. It is also the single-leading cause of death among children aged 1-4 and is a top cause death among teens. As pediatricians, we offer an important voice to help educate our parents, patients and community about how to keep kids safe in and around the water. Recently two of our pediatric residents, Dr. Laura Bricklin and Dr. Emma Harding, were awarded a CATCH grant for...

Join us for our next COVID-19 Virtual Provider Town Hall on Thursday, August 27 from 6-7:30 p.m. MST with the Children's CO Infectious Disease Team, including epi and literature updates: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4385745584068080396 Countries around the world are racing to develop a vaccine to end the COVID-19 global pandemic. In the United States, Operation Warp Speed – led by the...

Scoliosis affects between 2 and 3 percent of the population with the primary onset age being between 10-15 years old, occurring equally among both genders. On this episode, Lori Karol, MD joins us to unpack the diagnosis and management of scoliosis. Dr. Karol in the new Chief of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery at Children's Colorado and is Visiting Professor of Orthopedics at the University of Colora...

Please join us for this week's COVID-19 Virtual Provider Town Hall, Thursday, August 13 from 6-7:30 p.m. MST:  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4458292460271814414 The topic of face masks or face coverings use and their efficacy has rapidly morphed into one of the most divisive topics in American culture. Mandated by many government bodies in the US and around the globe, these face coveri...

When most of us were going through medical training the word podcast had still yet to be uttered. A mash-up of broadcast and ipod, the word was first introduced in 2004. But by 2020 the podcast platform has developed into an essential tool for dissemination of information amongst humans. Now we can get information on any conceivable topic and it seems inevitable that this will transform all contin...

Cellular therapy is a new type of immunotherapy that is bringing hope to pediatric patients with blood cancers.  The therapy is more specifically known as chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy (or  CAR-T cell  therapy), and it has been hailed as a breakthrough in the field of immunotherapy. CAR-T cell therapy "takes the brakes" off the immune system's response. Essentially, it trains the cells...

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its 8th month, we continue to learn more about how SARS-CoV2 impacts our pediatric population, including the severe Kawasaki-like disease, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Associated with COVID-19, or MIS-C. In this, our 17th COVID-19 podcast we will cover the clinical presentation of MIS-C, how it differs from Kawasaki's and what the early literature i...

Prenatally diagnosed with hydronephrosis, babies of ethnic minorities get surgery sooner than white ones, often within the first year. That's well documented; the trickier question is why. What role does implicit bias play, or at what point during the process does it come into play? What imaging studies do surgeons order, and how do they interpret the findings? How do those interpretations influen...

In this our 16th COVID-19 podcast, we will delve into the return to school guidance that both Children's Hospital Colorado and the American Academy of Pediatrics have released and talk about how pediatricians can be advocates for the safe return to in-person learning in their communities. When schools across the United States halted in-person learning because of COVID-19 this Spring, many of us ne...

Months of progress in the United States has been overshadowed this week by a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, with areas of the South and West experiencing their first strong wave of cases. Earlier this week Texas Children's Hospital announced they are admitting adult patients to help with surge capacity in Houston. As pediatric providers, we are considering ongoing PPE preparedness for an unknown fu...

Across our organization, our Children's Hospital Colorado team members have engaged in dialogue about the institutional origins of systemic racism, the targeted injustices that continue in Black communities, and the ways our social structures produce disparities in education, housing, economics, and health. Today we want to bring this conversation to the podcast and talk about the opportunity our...

As communities begin to emerge from stay-at-home orders, the question of return to sports and recreation is on the minds of many. While professional and collegiate sports may take longer to resume play and allow spectators in the stands, youth sports organizations are hopeful that they may be able to lead the way in restoring a sense of normalcy to everyday life. Given the unprecedented circumstan...

Clinical effectiveness seeks to answer the question "What works?" in healthcare; what are the best ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases in children? Today we are going to talk with Lalit Bajaj, MD, MPH/MPSH and dive in to clinical effectiveness and look at how those practices are be applied here at Children's Colorado and beyond and the impact of this work to the primary care setting. Dr....

We are privileged to have John Barnard, MD join us on the podcast today to discuss exciting pediatric research breakthroughs in fields of genomics, gene therapy, and more. Dr. Barnard is from Nationwide Children's Hospital where he serves as the chief of Pediatrics, president of The Research Institute and holds the Ann I. Wolfe Endowed Chair in Pediatric Research Leadership. He is also the chair o...

In this episode we cover the COVID-19 global pandemic, en Español with Edwin Asturias, MD. Dr. Asturias is part of the Infectious Disease Team and Director for Latin America at Children's Colorado and Professor of Pediatrics & Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Asturias is headed for Guatemala on May 24 to become their Presidential Commissioner for the COVID-...

Register for our Weekly COVID-19 Town Hall , 5/21 from 6-7 p.m. MST The COVID-19 Pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to maintaining healthy habits and healthy weight for our patients and families. We know that kids tend to loose structure and gain excess weight in the summer – we saw this prior to COVID-19 and we are now facing the most stressful and unpredictable summer of our lifetim...

Register for our weekly Provider Town Hall During COVID-19, May 21 from 6-7 p.m. MST. In recent weeks, there has been an outbreak of severe Kawasaki-like disease at the Italian epicenter of the SARS-CoV2 epidemic and as of May 12, the state of New York Health Department had identified 102 kids with potential infection. Up to this poi nt, our pediatric population had seen a relatively mild disease...

In this our 11th COVID-19 podcast, we will discuss clinical considerations for women and babies in the era of COVID-19 with Jessica Cataldi, MD and Erica Wymore, MD .   Join us for this week's Provider Town Hall, Thursday, May 14 from 6-7 p.m. MST: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5938843139417544973 The global pandemic has impacted every area of life, including the considerations and con...

Join us for our weekly Virtual Town Hall for Providers during COVID-19, Thursdays from 6-7 p.m. MST In this, our 10th COVID-19 podcast, we will have a case discussion around functional and high-yield adult medicine topics that might be useful for pediatricians helping to care for adult patients in the middle of this pandemic. You can go back and listen to our previous coverage on the COVID-19 Pand...

One of the bright spots during the COVID-19 pandemic has been the promising and experimental use of convalescent plasma, which was recently approved by the FDA for emergency treatment. The donation of antibody-rich blood from patients who have recovered from the SARS-CoV2 virus has been pioneered by Dr. Kyle Annan and the team at Children's Colorado. I n this, our 9th COVID-19 podcast we will cove...

In this episode we will discuss the diagnosis and management of TSS and are privileged to be joined by Jim Todd, MD who first discovered TSS in 1975.  Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a cluster of symptoms that involves many systems of the body. Certain bacterial infections release toxins into the bloodstream, which then spreads the toxins to body organs and can cause severe damage and illness.  Dr....

In this, our 8th COVID-19 podcast, I talk to two of my pediatric colleagues, Sean O'Leary, MD and Robin Larabee, MD who have had COVID-19 and are now recovered. We will discuss their symptoms and disease course in depth in hopes that it provides greater education and context for how different people have experienced COVID-19. As we move into our second month of the global pandemic most of us know...

Today's guest is Dr. Scott Sagel, here to discuss the care of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and the clinical research that has led to the advances in access to these breakthrough therapies. Dr. Scott is a Pediatric Pulmonologist at Children's Hospital Colorado and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

In recent weeks, the podcast has received hundreds of questions from listeners around the topic of PPE. So today, this episode is for you. We are going to cover all things PPE while reviewing the current epidemiology of COVID-19. We are now entering our second month of the global COVID-19 Pandemic. Our world has never experienced anything like this before – some days feel like they have contained...