The Skeptics' Guide to EM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Case: It’s a busy night in the emergency department, your next patient is a well appearing 70-year-old man, presenting after a mechanical fall from standing with loss of consciousness. It was a classic EM paper published in the Lancet back in 2001 by the Legend of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Ian Stiell.

Head Injuries 52

Head Injuries Emergency Department Seizures EMS 52

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MAY 22, 2021

The patient is not anticoagulated, has no midline neck pain, and no evidence of other injuries. She is generally well appearing without any deficients on neurological examination, given her minor mechanism, and normal examination no imaging or further testing is required. She was ambulatory on scene.

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Head Injuries Research Emergency Department Pediatrics 52

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MARCH 12, 2022

She knows about taking it easy physically for the next couple of days but wonders if she must stay off her computer as well? Background: Concussions or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) are commonly diagnosed in the Emergency Department (ED). An issue that often comes up with minor head injuries is do we need to get advanced imaging.

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Emergency Department Head Injuries Pediatrics Research 40

Pediatric EM Morsels

JULY 21, 2023

We have mentioned the Glasgow Coma Scale in multiple delicious morsels: Minor closed head injuries in <3 month olds and in the rebaked morsel , Blunt cerebrovascular injury , Cerebral edema in DKA , Pediatric Trauma Pitfalls , and Carbon monoxide poisoning. Predicting outcome in individual patients after severe head injury.

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Head Injuries Pediatrics Outcomes Shock 246