- Describe the most common age of presentation of appendicitis in children.
- Identify an unusual diagnosis of a common presenting complaint of headache in a child.
- Name a serious cardiac complication of a common viral illness presentation in a child.
- Explain a diagnosis of daytime urinary frequency in a child.
- Recognize the most common patient that presents with a history of urethrovaginal reflux in children.
49 minutes of synced audio and PowerPoint
Course Description:
In medicine, we are admonished to always consider horses when we hear hoof beats. However, it is not unusual to see pediatric patients presenting with common presentations of unusual conditions or uncommon presentations of routine conditions. This case-based presentation will cover a case of appendicitis in a young child, a child with a complicated headache, an unusual presentation of a viral illness, and two fairly common yet relatively unknown urologic conditions frequently seen in an ambulatory or urgent care setting. This presentation will be reinforcement of the importance of thinking outside the box when caring for patients in an urgent care setting.
Speaker: ThomasTryon, MD, MBA, FAAP
Dr. Tom Tryon is a clinical urgent care physician and is the former Associate Division Director of the Section of Urgent Care for Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine. Dr. Tryon has been a full time pediatric urgent care physician since 2006. Dr. Tryon resigned his leadership role in December, 2015 in order to focus more of his time on an entrepreneurial venture company Dynamic Health Inventions, LLC and the production of a healthcare software innovation called MyHealthAdvisor. In his previous leadership role, he oversaw the building, development and clinical operations of three pediatric urgent care centers, including a staff of approximately 70 full, part time, and moonlighting physicians. The urgent care centers most recently this past fiscal year saw almost 85,000 patients, while generating over $60 million in revenue. Following his pediatric residency training at Children’s Mercy Hospital he practiced for eleven years in full time pediatric solo practice and half time adult and pediatric emergency medicine and urgent care practice in southwest Missouri and northeast Oklahoma before returning to Children’s Mercy in 2006. Dr. Tryon has been married for 34 years to his wife Jackie, a pediatric nurse and lactation consultant. They have four children: Chris, a pediatric critical care fellow at Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky; Rebecca, a Genetic Counselor working with the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; Drew, a nursing student at Denver School of Nursing, and Jack, a college freshman in Kansas City. They live in Smithville, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City, close to Smithville Lake where they enjoy boating, fishing and golf.
Disclosures:
None
1 CME
Designation Statement
The Urgent Care Association designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Statement
The Urgent Care Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Submitting for Credit:
If you would like to submit for credit above, you must complete the 5 question knowledge test and answer 3 out of 5 (60%) correctly. Your certificate will be available in your library under Credits and below the title of the session.
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