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 Stool in an X-Ray
The abdominal X-ray is not good at telling us if a patient is constipated. We can have a wide variety of stool burden in an X-ray, but that does not mean that they're having trouble pooping and that that is the cause of their abdominal pain. There are significant harms to the X-rays, not only the radiation, but the anchoring bias,. The giving unnecessary medications that might help move things along unnecessarily.
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