This podcast will give you an updated approach to the evaluation of stridor. In this episode, listeners will 1) define stridor and the pathophysiology causing stridor, 2) create a differential diagnosis based on a patient’s presenting signs and symptoms, 3) differentiate benign causes of stridor from those that are life-threatening, 4) describe common pathogens involved in infectious etiologies of stridor, and 5) outline a basic management plan for a patient with stridor based on the differential diagnoses and investigative findings.

This podcast is part 1 of a 2-part series intended to introduce the listener to peripheral intravenous insertion in the pediatric patient. This podcast will review some key differences between doing procedures in children compared to adults, and how those differences guide our approach to placing peripheral IVs in kids. It will discuss considerations specific to working with children that will both improve your success rate and make placing the IV far less stressful of an experience for your young patients.

This podcast covers handover, including why it is important, elements of a good handover, common barriers to effective handover and some commonly used tools.  It was developed by Chelsea Gilbert, a medical student at the University of Alberta and Dr. Zafira Bhaloo, a pediatrician at the University of Alberta.

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In this podcast, the listener will learn the basics of approaching acute appendicitis in pediatric patients. This includes the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and complications of acute appendicitis, its presentation, the differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain in children, investigations for suspected appendicitis, and an overview of its management. This podcast was created by Christina Ray, a medical student at the University of Alberta, in conjunction with Dr. Troy Turner, an emergency physician at the University of Alberta’s Stollery Children’s Hospital.

This podcast will discuss tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) in pediatric patients, including the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, risk factors, and interventions for TLS. It was developed by Stephanie Unrau and Marc Beaudin, 4th year medical students at the University of Alberta, in collaboration with Dr. Bev Wilson, medical director of the Northern Alberta Children's Cancer Program at the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton, Canada.

This podcast presents an overview of female genital cutting, or FGC, from a pediatrics perspective. In it, the listener will learn to discuss what FGC is, where and why it is performed, the complications of FGC, how FGC is addressed in Canadian law, an approach to discussing FGC with patients and their families, and an approach to a pelvic exam in a child who has been cut. The podcast was developed by Dora Gyenes, a medical student at the University of Alberta, with support from Dr. Cathy Flood, a urogynecologist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

This podcast is the second part of a two-part series on sepsis and septic shock in pediatric patients. This episode covers the initial investigations and steps in the management of pediatric sepsis, the priorities and key considerations in the management of pediatric patients with sepsis, and how to identify common sites of infection that may lead to sepsis. This podcast was created by Dan Lafreniere, a research associate in the Department of Pharmacology at Dalhousie University, and Dr.