The Cribsiders

The latest UTI guidelines are giving pediatric clinicians plenty to think about - and a few things to rethink. Join pediatric hospitalist and guideline author Dr. Brian Alverson for a practical discussion of evaluating and treating UTIs in children from 8 days through 5 years of age. We’ll walk through when to test, how to collect and interpret urine samples, when waiting is reasonable, and why constipation should not be overlooked. Along the way, we’ll tackle shorter antibiotic courses, imaging decisions, prophylaxis, and strategies for avoiding overtreatment.

Kids put everything everywhere. In this episode, we talk with pediatric emergency medicine physician Gabriel Devlin, MD, about the evaluation and management of pediatric foreign body ingestions and insertions from airway foreign bodies and button batteries to magnets, nasal beads, and bugs in the ear.

Don't let a clot catch you off guard! Recorded live at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Pediatric Grand Rounds, we're joined by Dr. Hope Wilson (UAB) to untangle deep vein thrombosis. Dr. Wilson teaches us which veins actually count as "deep," prescribing DOACs to kids, and how anticoagulation duration has changed. Plus a rapid fire round on upper extremity clots, Lemierre's, and what to do when anticoagulation is off the table. Your enthusiasm for VTE is about to propagate.

Vaccine preventable illnesses have been on the run since the first smallpox vaccine was administered in 1789, however recent trends in vaccine uptake has led to resurgence of these infectious diseases. Today, each pediatrician must be able to recognize and combat pathogens like Bordetella pertussis, Strep pneumonia, and Haemophilus influenzae.

Trust your gut—it might be FPIES! Pediatric allergist Dr. Jessica Macdougall joins us to break down food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES), from the vomiting infant in the ED to the baby with chronic GI symptoms and poor growth. Learn how to distinguish FPIES from IgE-mediated food allergy and “milk protein allergy” (FPIAP), recognize common triggers and mimickers, manage acute reactions, and safely navigate food reintroduction.