Charting Pediatrics

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When the Loss of Smell Lingers, Olfactory Training for Post-COVID-19 Infection with Kenny Chan, MD (S4:E23) Mar 05, 2021

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Register for our next COVID-19 Town Hall on March 11 at 6 p.m. MST: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3191284534166093839

COVID-19 has disrupted people's ability to smell, for days or months and has been well-documented at this point in the pandemic, but researchers aren't sure why. Even less is known about the long-term effects on children who have not regained their sense of smell months after recovering from COVID-19, a phenomenon that is believed to be vastly underreported. Pediatric patients are less likely to articulate to a provider or to their parents that they cannot smell or taste normally.

On today's episode, we talk with Kenny Chan, MD about the existing supportive evidence for olfactory training to help with post-COVID-19 infection recovery and a new research study being launched at Children's Colorado to help learn more about these patients.

Dr. Chan is the Chair of Pediatric Otolaryngology at Children's Hospital Colorado and is Professor of Otolaryngology and Surgery at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

JAMA Insights Article: Olfactory Dysfunction in COVID-19 Diagnosis & Management

The Eyes Have It: Common Pediatric Eye Emergencies with Emily McCourt, MD (S4:E22) Feb 23, 2021

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The first person to see a child following an eye emergency plays a critical role in preventing and treating an eye injury and subsequent visual loss. A basic, five minute eye exam can help providers determine how urgent an ocular problem is and the appropriate treatment approach. In today's episode Emily McCourt, MD shares clinical pearls to help providers diagnose and triage a child who presents with an eye injury.

Dr. McCourt is the Chair of Pediatric Ophthalmology at Children's Hospital Colorado and is Associate Professor of Pediatric and Adult Strabismus at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Do you have thoughts about today's episode or suggestions for a future topic? Write to us, chartingpediatrics@childrenscolorado.org

Resident Files: Hearing Screening in Pediatrics with Jordan Yoeli, MD (S4:E21) Feb 16, 2021

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Hearing loss is the most common developmental disorder identifiable at birth and its prevalence increases throughout school‐age due to the additions of late‐onset, late identified and acquired hearing loss. Under identification and lack of appropriate management of hearing loss in children has broad effects and impact on educational, cognitive and social development. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics For all children, regular surveillance of developmental milestones, auditory skills, parental concerns, and middle-ear status should be performed in the medical home. On today's Resident Files episode we are going to walk through the hearing screening schedule and risk indicators with Jordan Yoeli, MD, PGY-3 pediatrics resident at Children's Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Do you have thoughts about today's episode or suggestions for a future topic? Write to us, chartingpediatrics@childrenscolorado.org

A Pandemic & Pediatrics Update: Vaccines, Variants & MIS-C with Sam Dominguez, MD (S4:E20) Feb 09, 2021

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Register for our next COVID-19 Town Hall - Thursday, February 11 at 6 p.m. MST. Read more about our COVID-19 Town Hall series for pediatric providers here.

The number of COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations are steadily declining in the U.S., signaling we may have turned a corner in the pandemic. And after a challenging start to rolling out the vaccine, about 31.6 million people in the US have received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine, including about 9.1 million people who are fully vaccinated. In today's episode, we discuss the latest in the journey to end the pandemic and what it means for pediatrics with Sam Dominguez, MD.

Dr. Dominguez is a pediatric infectious diseases physician at Children's Hospital Colorado and Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Do you have thoughts about today's episode or suggestions for a future podcast topic? Write to us, chartingpediatrics@childrenscolorado.org

Healthy Weight, Stigma & Eating Disorders with Jennifer Hagman, MD and Matt Haemer, MD (S4:E19) Feb 02, 2021

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Join our next COVID-19 Provider Town Hall on Thursday, February 11 at 6 p.m. MST: https://bit.ly/3cMwxH5

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic we have examined various impacts this time has had on the pediatric population. In recent months, the Charting Pediatrics host team has received multiple emails from pediatricians around the globe who are observing increased number of patients struggling with health weight stigma and eating disorders as the pandemic lingers on. The clinical experiences and observations of our colleagues writing in inspired today's discussion with Jennifer Hagman, MD and Matt Haemer, MD.

Dr. Hagman is Director of the Eating Disorder Program at Children's Hospital Colorado and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Dr. Haemer helps lead the Nutrition team at Children's Colorado and is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Nutrition at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Resources Mentioned:

Children's Colorado Obesity Clinical Pathway
- Resources for screening and discussing health behaviors can be found on page 2
Food Security Resources
Cooking Matters
Fitness Blender
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
Children's Colorado Eating Disorder Program

Do you have thoughts about today's episode or suggestions for a future topic? Write to us, chartingpediatrics@childrenscolorado.org

Common Breathing Issues During Respiratory Season with Ben Hughes, MD (S4:E18) Jan 26, 2021

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Respiratory diseases account for nearly a quarter of all pediatric consultations. And in addition to the usual suspects on our differentials, we now have the consideration of COVID-19. In today's episode, we talk with Ben Hughes, MD about the most common breathing issues during respiratory season, important diagnostic considerations and treatments options.

Dr. Hughes is a pediatric pulmonologist at Children's Hospital Colorado and lives locally on the Western Slope of Colorado in Grand Junction; he is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Do you have thoughts about today's episode or suggestions for a future topic? Write to us, chartingpediatrics@childrenscolorado.org

Why It's Time to Return to In Person Learning with Sean O'Leary, MD (S4:E17) Jan 22, 2021

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New studies from Germany, Norway and the U.S. offer yet more data to show that childcare facilities and elementary schools should remain open or re-open to full-time, in-person learning as quickly as possible. Despite these research findings, schools across the US have largely been closed to in-person learning since the pandemic reached critical mass in the U.S. in March 2020. On today's episode, we are going to talk through these recent studies and the advocacy needed to support the re-opening of schools to full-time, in-person learning.

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.26.1.2002011

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2026670

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/01/06/peds.2020-048090

Today we are joined by returning guest Dr. Sean O'Leary, an Infectious Disease physician at Children's Colorado and Director of the Colorado Pediatric Practice-Based Research Network. Sean is also a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics and can regularly be found being interviewed and quoted in the New York Times, C-SPAN, PBS and CNN to name a few.

Do you have thoughts about today's episode or suggestions for a future topic? Write to us, chartingpediatrics@childrenscolorado.org

When Substance Use Disorders Come to Pediatrics with Debbie Singer, MD & Paula Riggs, MD (S4:E16) Jan 12, 2021

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In this episode we are joined by Dr. Debbie Singer and Dr. Paula Riggs to discuss their successful collaboration screening adolescents for substance use disorders, implementing the SBIRE (screening for evaluation) vs SBIRT (referral for treatment) approach, and its rationale and effectiveness in this partnership between primary care pediatrics and psychiatry.

Debbie Singer, MD is a primary care pediatrician at Every Child Pediatrics in Denver, Colo. and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP).

Paul Riggs, MD is Director of the Division of Addiction Science, Prevention & Treatment; Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs for the Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine; and Director of the Encompass Clinic.

Do you have thoughts about today's episode or suggestions for a future topic? Write to us, chartingpediatrics@childrenscolorado.org

A Twist: New COVID-19 Variants with Sam Dominguez, MD (S4:E15) Jan 06, 2021

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COVID-19 Provider Town Hall: COVID-19 Variants & Vaccine Focus: https://bit.ly/3ndY8Cs on Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 6 p.m. MST.

For the last month of the pandemic, hope and excitement have surrounded the COVID vaccination deployment as more than 3 million Americans received their first vaccine dose by the close of 2020. While the pandemic is far from over, there is a sense of hope that the vaccine represents the beginning of the end. As this hope was rising, a new variant of the virus emerged with an unusually large number of mutations. This variant seems to spread more easily and quickly than other variants and was first detected in September 2020. It is now highly prevalent in London and southeast England, and has since been detected in numerous countries around the world, including the United States and Canada. In today's episode, we are going to talk with Sam Dominguez, MD about the details of the virus variant mutations and what that means for pediatrics and the vaccine.

You can go back and listen to our previous coverage on the COVID-19 Pandemic on Season 3 and 4 of the podcast.

We are pleased to welcome back Dr. Sam Dominguez to the podcast. Sam is a pediatric infectious diseases physician at Children's Hospital Colorado and Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Do you have thoughts about today's episode or suggestions for a future topic? Write to us, chartingpediatrics@childrenscolorado.org

Autism, Developmental Delays & the Impact of COVID with Caitlin Middleton, PhD and Abigail Angulo, MD (S4:E14) Jan 05, 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has presented uncountable challenges for each of us, but as we considered some specific patient populations that have particularly been impacted our kids with autism and developmental delays come to mind. These children are especially vulnerable to the effects of the pandemic due to overall more significant healthcare needs, their dependency on community-based and school-based services and global mental health concerns. On today's episode we talk with Caitlin Middleton, PhD and Abigail Angulo, MD through the considerations primary care providers should make for their patients with autism and developmental delays as we move through the latest wave of the pandemic.

Dr. Middleton is part of the Developmental Pediatrics team at Children's Hospital Colorado and is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Dr. Angulo is part of the Developmental Pediatrics team at Children's Hospital Colorado and is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Do you have thoughts about today's episode or suggestions for a future topic? Write to us, chartingpediatrics@childrenscolorado.org

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