Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 4 , Pages 292-297 , December 2009

The Floppy Little Baby

  • Sabah F. Iqbal, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and correspondence: Sabah F. Iqbal, MD, Division of Emergency Medicine, Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20010.
    • ,
  • Dewesh Agrawal, MD

      Affiliations

    • Pediatric Residency Training Program Director, and Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

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☆ Presented during the Emergi-Quiz Case competition of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine at the 2007 National Conference and Exposition in San Francisco, Calif.

PII: S1522-8401(09)00091-3

doi: 10.1016/j.cpem.2009.10.006

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 4 , Pages 292-297 , December 2009

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