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Use Of Radio-opaque Markers In Penetrating Trauma

The Trauma Pro

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA The author first reviewed the literature on the use of markers for penetrating injury, which started only recently, in 2002. The author questions the justification of this practice and posits that there are risks to extrapolating information based on radiographs with markers placed by the trauma team.

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The End Of Serial Hemoglobin/Hematocrit In Solid Organ Injury

The Trauma Pro

We developed our first iteration of a solid organ injury practice guideline at Regions Hospital way back in 2002. Possible interventions were none, operation, angioembolization, or blood transfusion. Here’s the final post on my series covering serial hemoglobin testing in the management of solid organ injury.

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Brazilian Butt Lift Procedure Can Result in Emergency Department Visits

ACEP Now

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.

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Ethical Issues in Interhospital Transfers of Emergency Department Patients

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Unfortunately, many tertiary hospitals routinely operate at censuses of greater than 100 percent capacity, due to factors including insufficient acute care bed capacity, a shortage of nursing care, and misaligned incentive structures for health care more generally. 2002 Jun;94(6):426-9. Click to enlarge. PloS one 13.8 2018):e0203316.

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Coffee and Cases Snippets: Don’t Leave Me In Suspense

Greater Sydney Area HEMS

In fact as recently as 2002 a UK Health and Safety Executive report recommended that suspended patients ‘must never be laid down’, rather gradually transferred via a number of intermediate seated positions (1). Although remember, as is observed intra-operatively from tourniquet application, muscle can tolerate hours of hypoxia.

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Case Report: a High-Voltage Victim

ACEP Now

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.

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Bubble Wrap PLUS – January 2024

Don't Forget the Bubbles

However, children who had an operation experienced improvements in behaviour, symptoms, and quality of life and had lower blood pressure. Data collected from 2002 to 2021 revealed a 72% decline in IPD incidence among children (<18 years), with continued reductions after the transition from PCV7 to PCV13.