For a complete list of the outstanding pediatric FOAM courses from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, please see CHOP Open-access Medical Education.
Here is a link to the outstanding Kawasaki Disease Lecture and accompanying slides from Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia.
There are 66 slides which you can quickly review. The slides and accompanying lecture are a great basic review of the diagnosis and management of Kawasaki Disease.
In addition Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia’s Pathway for Evaluation and Treatment of Kawasaki Disease or Incomplete Kawasaki Disease is an outstanding online resource.
The CHOP Clinical Pathways for many pediatric diseases are available online at their site. Just type in the disease you are interested in and the Pathway should come up.
Why do we care about Kawasaki Disease?
[Because Kawasaki Disease can cause heart damage.]
Start at Slide 34
Additional Resources [All these excellent links are from the CHOP Pathway above.
- Diagnosis, Treatment, and Long-Term Management of Kawasaki Disease
- Evaluation of Kawasaki Disease Risk Scoring System for Intravenous Immunoglobulin Resistance
- Critical Overview of the Risk Scoring Systems to Predict Non-Responsiveness to Intravenous Immunoglobulin in Kawasaki Syndrome
- Coronary Artery Complication in Kawasaki Disease and the Importance of Early Intervention : A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. +
- Corticosteroids for the treatment of Kawasaki disease in children +
- Predicting Coronary Artery Aneurysms in Kawasaki Disease at a North American Center: An Assessment of Baseline z Scores
- Intravenous immunoglobulin-related hemolysis in patients treated for Kawasaki disease. +
- Adverse events of intravenous immunoglobulin infusions: a ten-year retrospective study
- Side-effects of intravenous immune globulins
