ACEP Now

MAY 9, 2024

A search for Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) on any social media platform will yield thousands of before-and-after images, faja sales, operating room videos, recovery tips, and patients praising their plastic surgeon. Cosmetic Surgery National Data Bank: 2002 Statistics. These questionable practices led to a rash of bad outcomes. Al Jazeera.

Emergency Department 52

Emergency Department Operations Ultrasounds Hospitals 52

ACEP Now

MARCH 14, 2024

In our case, the patient had a CT of the head, cervical spine, and chest, abdomen, and pelvis with intravenous contrast demonstrated a C2, C7 compression fracture with significant bowel edema (Figure 4), and was taken to the operating room for left arm disarticulation, left below knee amputation and right above knee amputation.

Burns 52

Burns Fluid Resuscitation EKG/ECG EMS 52

Taming the SRU

JANUARY 29, 2024

Notable Diagnostics CBC : unremarkable, BMP : unremarkable X-ray imaging of the left hand, wrist, and forearm: chronic degenerative changes without acute fracture or bony abnormality. 2002 Feb 25;162(4):401-4. The remainder of the physical examination is unremarkable. Mustafa BO, Rathbun SW, Whitsett TL, Raskob GE. Arch Intern Med.

Emergency Department 91

Emergency Department Fractures Hospitals Operations 91

PHEM Cast

APRIL 18, 2016

Spinal fractures occur in 2% of all major trauma. Unstable spinal fractures occur in all major trauma 0.7%. Hauwald, 2002 A co-operative patient does not require immobilization unless their conscious level deteriorates. Remember this when you get on scene – 98% of patients will not have a spinal injury.

Fractures 40

Fractures Administration Operations Shock 40

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JANUARY 1, 2017

Neonatal observational scales have been validated in the intensive care and post-operative settings; ED-specific quantitative scales are lacking. CRIES ( Table 1 ) was validated for post-operative patients; to adapt its use for the ED, the most conservative approach is to substitute “preoperative baseline” with normal range for age.

Pediatrics 40

Pediatrics Soft Tissue Injuries Burns Emergency Department 40

Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

This finding was not significantly different among operators with different levels of experience, or between adults and children. Identifying serious causes of back pain: cancer, infection, fracture. 2002 Jan 2;287(1):92-101. Cleve Clin J Med. 2008 Aug;75(8):557-66. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.75.8.557. PMID: 18756836. Arthritis Rheum.

Infectious Diseases 86

Infectious Diseases Sepsis Emergency Department Point-of-Care Testing 86

EMDocs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

23 Blunt carotid injury is more likely in patients with at least one of the following: Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ≤ 6, fracture of petrous bone, presence of diffuse axonal brain injury, and LeFort II/III fractures. 23 BCVI should be suspected with any high-energy trauma or any fractures of the maxilla or mandible. 24) Kelts, G.;

Stroke 87

Stroke Radiology Radiology Emergency Department 87