Podcast #443: Measles - a timely revisit

Emergency Medical Minute

Content provided by medicalminute and Emergency Medical Minute. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by medicalminute and Emergency Medical Minute or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

5+ y ago 3:30

MP4•Episode home

Author: Sue Chilton, MD

Educational Pearls:

Measles is highly contagious
Typically patients just look sick
Remember 4 & 4, 14, and 4-C’s:
- Contagious 4 days before and after onset of rash
- 14 days for rash to appear
- Cough, coryza, conjunctivitis (non-purulent), and Koplik’s spots
Under 2 and over 20 are highest risk groups
1 in 1000 will die
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is one of the most feared, degenerative, 100% fatal complications that can occur up to two decades after initial infection

Editor’s Note: Don’t be pro-plague - if you can, vaccinate your children.

References:

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/01/16/denver-measles-exposure/

Moss WJ. Measles. Lancet. 2017 Dec 2;390(10111):2490-2502. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31463-0. Epub 2017 Jun 30. Review. PubMed PMID: 28673424.

Bester JC. Measles and Measles Vaccination: A Review. JAMA Pediatr. 2016 Dec 1;170(12):1209-1215. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.1787. Review. PubMed PMID: 27695849.

Summarized and edited by Erik Verzemnieks, MD

1073 episodes

#Emergency Medicine #Science #Fitness #medicalminute #Emergency Medical Minute #Medicine #Emergency #Medical #Emergencymedicine #Podcasting Education #Health and Well-Being