
S2 Ep21: Things We Do For No Reason in Pediatrics #2: How to stop relying on blood cultures and X-rays!
The Cribsiders
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The Importance of Elevation in Cellulitis
The elevation is actually a really big deal. The other thing is that if you have a lower extremity, you wanna raise that actually because the raising that extremity is actually as important as antibiotics. And so in little kids, it's very hard to do that, but if you have an eight-year-old who can cooperate, you wanna lift that leg up... Cause that actually has been shown to be as important as the antibiotics.
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