Summer is upon us! And with the warm weather comes all sorts of summer fun....swimming, boating, jetskis, skateboards, ATVs, trampolines...and the associated accidents and trauma that often fill up pediatric emergency rooms and ICUs. Joining us to talk about summer trauma season and best practices for injury prevention is Dr. Andrew Kiragu, pediatric intensive care specialist and past president of the MNAAP. On this episode we review strategies for keeping kids safe while enjoying summer activit...
Jul 23, 2021•22 min
In this first episode of our Book Club series, guest host Dr. Gabi Hester sits down with a multidisciplinary group of clinicians from MN and beyond to discuss books that influenced their careers in medicine. Specifically, each guest discusses what books inspired them to pursue medicine, or a particular field of pediatrics, and why. A good start to your summer reading list! For the episode transcript, go here: https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking...
Jul 16, 2021•23 min
On this episode of Talking Pediatrics Crack the Case, guest host Dr. Bryan Fate is joined by Dr. Kayla Olson, pediatric resident, to discuss one of our favorite subjects in pediatrics.....poop. Bloody stool carries a wide differential spanning infection, inflammatory bowel disease, and anatomic variants; and what appears to be blood isn't always so. Through this case, we discuss the importance of a thorough stooling history to guide decision making and when to be worried about dangerous causes o...
Jul 09, 2021•21 min
There are certain people who "change the game" for all who come after them, while impacting and influencing the world for the better. Trailblazers. To close out LGBTQ Pride month 2021, we introduce our first Talking Pediatrics Trailblazer episode, featuring Emmy award winning reporter Jana Shortal. Listen to how Jana came to break the unspoken dress code for on-air reporters, inspiring others, including many kids and teenagers, to lean into their authentic identities and show up exactly as they ...
Jun 25, 2021•21 min
The pandemic is changing as we head into summer 2021, and many of us in healthcare are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. Join this conversation with nurse practitioner Patsy Stinchfield, Director of Infection Prevention and Control and Children's Minnesota's COVID Incident Commander, as we discuss current infection rates, what we know about the emerging delta variant and where we are at with pediatric vaccine trials. As Patsy describes, COVID remains "a clear and present danger" fo...
Jun 18, 2021•19 min
We ALL have implicit biases. Biases can be favorable or unfavorable towards race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, nationality, language, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, geography, and disabilities. These biases might not be the same as our conscious beliefs, but they can influence our actions and perpetuate children’s health disparities. Join guest host Dr. Samreen Vora as she interviews Dr. Tensing Maa from Nationwide Children’s Hospital about using technology and simulatio...
Jun 11, 2021•19 min
With summer comes sunshine, ice cream, sports, and concussions. On this episode, Dr. Gabi Hester interviews Family Medicine Physician, Dr. Jesse Coenen. about concussions. What causes them, how to recognize them, and best management strategies.
Jun 04, 2021•17 min
Primary care doctors frequently encounter kids with episodic, crampy leg pain, often worse at night and felt in deep muscular compartments bilaterally. So-called “growing pains” are poorly understood (and likely have little to do with actual linear growth) but thankfully self-resolve in time. Through this case, we discuss when reassurance for growing pains is warranted, what else is on the differential and when to be concerned, as well how continuity with families informs medical decisions and t...
May 28, 2021•30 min
It's time to introduce a new guest host to the Talking Pediatrics podcast! Dr. Bryan Fate is a pediatrician in our Minneapolis Primary Care clinic at Children's Minnesota, a talented musician and will be the guest host for our new Crack the Case with Dr. Fate series on Talking Pediatrics. Listen to a brief conversation with Dr. Fate to learn about what drew him into both pediatrics and music, and how he will be combining these two passions into an exciting new case-based episodes of our podcast.
May 28, 2021•7 min
One thing that has become increasingly clear is that racism has a demonstrated impact on health outcomes. It's also become apparent that structural racism is not only built into the wiring of our healthcare systems' walls, but into many other institutions as well, including education, public safety, housing, criminal justice and others. Knowing that racism and racial trauma impacts the health of our patients, how do we talk about it with them? How do we have conversations about race in the exam ...
May 21, 2021•16 min
Science is science and facts are facts, right? Unfortunately, not when it comes to the internet. In the age of "Dr. Google" how can we best care for patients and families when most families are using the internet to self-diagnose before coming to the office, or after the visit to challenge our recommendations? Learn how to set the stage for having effective conversations with families about online medical information, how to counter the "infodemic" we are experiencing with the expansion of medic...
May 14, 2021•17 min
How much time have you spent thinking about how you communicate with patients? Are you good at it? How would you know? Could we be causing harm by not communicating clearly with our patients? Join us as we talk with Dr. Mike Pitt, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Hospitalist at the University of Minnesota, about the science of communication, common “medial jargon” pitfalls and learn some tips for how to make sure that we are communicating clearly to patients and families in a variety of cli...
May 07, 2021•19 min
As kids flock outside to play this summer, musculoskeletal infections are on thing that could slow them down. In this episode guest host Dr. Gabi Hester will dig deep into the evidence with Dr. Jennifer Laine, Pediatric Orthopedic surgeon as well as Dr. Raj Srivastava, Pediatric Hospitalist about the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal infections.
Apr 30, 2021•21 min
Often when we think of simulation, we think of the use of mannequins to practice procedures or simulate a trauma or event, but nothing really prepares you for "real life" in quite the same way as simulating with actual human beings, or standardized patients. Listen to guest host Dr. Samreen Vora as she interviews Joe Miller, human simulation program manager at the University of Minnesota, about the use of live pediatric simulated patients or actors to simulate everything from a "mass casualty" e...
Apr 23, 2021•16 min
Almost one year ago, the world watched in horror as former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd, ultimately taking his life. After this event, and in the middle of a global pandemic, we both watched and participated in a global awakening and uprising for racial justice, with many heeding the call to take action to end systemic racism as they never had before. While Derek Chauvin's trial gets underway and we prepare for the one year anniversary of George's Fl...
Apr 16, 2021•15 min
2021 is shaping up to be one of the worst years for anti-LGBTQ legislation to date. So far over 175 bills have been introduced in 32 states that seek to restrict the rights of LGBTQ individuals, with several of them specifically targeting transgender and gender diverse kids. This coordinated, multistate effort to target vulnerable transgender youth is rooted in fear and misinformation. Guest host James Burroughs, VP and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer, interviews Dr. Angela Kade Goepferd, Chi...
Apr 09, 2021•16 min
We are now over a year into our journey with COVID-19 and so much has changed. We are rolling out vaccines, we are battling new variants, and we are desperately trying to tip that scales toward controlling the pandemic and despite rising new cases. On this Guidelines with Gabi edition of Talking Pediatrics, Dr. Gabi Hester interviews Christina Koutsari, Pharm D, about the Bamlanivimab, one of the latest treatment options for COVID-19. Bamlanivimab has received FDA emergency use authorization for...
Apr 02, 2021•22 min
Many of us have had significant professional and personal impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, and our lives have changed in ways that are only now just becoming clear a year later. Join us for a unique conversation with a seasoned critical care physician, Dr. Stephen Kurachek, as he reflects on what it was like to follow the evolving science of the COVID pandemic as a part of the HICS team at Children's Minnesota, what he observed about the impact of the pandemic and isolation on our humanity, a...
Mar 26, 2021•19 min
On this Equity Actions episode of Talking Pediatrics, our guest host, VP and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer James Burroughs, interviews Dr. Rachel Hardeman PhD, MPH, the newly appointed Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health and Racial Equity at the UMN School of Public Health and the founding director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity. Does it make a difference if Black patients have a Black doctor? What impact does police violence have on community health outcomes? Li...
Mar 12, 2021•15 min
A year into the pandemic, and we still continue to learn more about how SARS CoV-2 infection affects kids. So, what should pediatric clinicians be looking for when it comes to signs and complications of COVID in children? One thing we know for sure is that "COVID clots". On this episode, Dr. Gabi Hester interviews our hematology specialist Dr. Kate Garland about what we know about clotting in kids with COVID, which kids are most vulnerable, and which kids, and at what ages, should be put on thro...
Mar 05, 2021•11 min
It's hard to prepare for the unexpected, though in healthcare, we often rely on Simulation to help us hone our skills for unexpected and high stress medical events, such as a medical code or trauma. But sometimes, the unexpected happens on such a large scale that it's almost unimaginable how we could possibly prepare. Perhaps surprisingly, Simulation can also be used in for these "disaster" situations like extreme weather, mass casualty events, school shootings, and yes, even a pandemic. Join gu...
Feb 26, 2021•15 min
Despite many advances we have made over the last decades, black women continue to die in childbirth at rates that seem unbelievable in 2021. We have made medical advances that allow us to do things like open fetal surgery, and yet we continue to measure dramatic differences in both maternal morbidity and mortality, as well as infant mortality, based on race. On today's episode, join guest host James Burroughs, VP and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer as he interviews Dr. Lisa Saul, perinatologi...
Feb 19, 2021•20 min
Chances are, if you work in healthcare, you've already been vaccinated, and as vaccination rates increase, we are finally starting to see COVID infection rates and positivity rates decrease. So what does this mean? Are we on our way out of the pandemic? What comes next? Joining us on this episode is our resident COVID expert, nurse practitioner Patsy Stinchfield, who is our COVID incident commander at Children's Minnesota, senior director of Infection Prevention and a member of the ACIP vaccine ...
Feb 12, 2021•21 min
We've talked on our podcast about COVID infection in kids, how to manage the acute symptoms, how to recognize complications like MIS-C. But what about after a child recovers from COVID-19 infection? What comes next? Are kids at increased risk of cardiac complications post infection? How and when can kids safely return to sports? Join guest host Dr. Gabi Hester as she interviews pediatric cardiologist Dr. Chris Carter from the Children's Heart Clinic about these questions and more.
Feb 05, 2021•18 min
As of January 2021, there were over 1600 total reported cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, and 26 pediatric deaths. Given that most cases of MIS-C occur between the ages of 1-14, and kids under 16 are not yet eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, understanding how to recognize and respond to MIS-C is something that everyone working in pediatrics needs to know. On this episode, our guidelines expert, Dr. Gabi Hester, Medical Director of Clinical Outcomes at Chil...
Jan 29, 2021•23 min
In late 2019, a mysterious respiratory illness was sweeping across the country. No, it's wasn't COVID but vaping related lung injury, or EVALI. Once COVID hit the US in early 2020, news of vaping and vaping related lung injury nearly vanished from the news, but many questions remain unanswered. Does vaping put someone at increased risk for catching COVID? Is your risk of COVID complications higher if you have a vaping habit? How can we be sure respiratory distress is COVID and not EVALI? And mos...
Jan 22, 2021•21 min
On this Equity Actions episode of Talking Pediatrics, guest host James Burroughs, VP, Chief Diversity Officer, interviews Dr. Steve Nelson, pediatric hematologist and director of Children's Sickle Cell program on what it means to be a white doctor advocating for the elimination of racism in medicine. Listen Dr. Nelson's journey of discovering and understanding white privilege and systemic racism ("the racial narratives that wash over all of us"), and how this discovery shaped both his medical pr...
Jan 15, 2021•22 min
Winter is here, and amidst the backdrop of the COVID pandemic, we can expect our usual seasonal surge in bronchiolitis in children. On this episode, Dr. Gabi Hester interviews our medical director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Dr. Robert Sicoli, on what we know about bronchiolitis best practices, how our pediatric emergency department was able to effectively implement guidelines to reduce both length of stay and return visits for bronchiolitis and what the implications will be of caring for k...
Jan 08, 2021•15 min
Join us for a unique conversation about the next frontier in simulation: Anti-Racism. Guest host Dr. Samreen Vora interviews simulation design specialist Brittany Dahlen, RN and hospital chaplain Chris Lillehei about how we can use simulation to reduce implicit bias and improve patient outcomes. Our host and guests lean into the uncomfortable topics that we tend to avoid, and explore opportunities for using simulation to help us improve skills and advance equitable outcomes. Listen to how you an...
Dec 18, 2020•19 min
We are in the middle of a public health crisis. At almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, infection, hospitalization and death rates are skyrocketing toward all time highs. This weeks numbers suggest that nearly two people died from COVID-19 every minute this past week. Infection rates are high, our hospitals are filling up and as the weather is getting colder, it is forcing us indoors and potentially into more exposures with upcoming holidays. It appears that the light at the end of the tunn...
Dec 11, 2020•23 min
