The Skeptics' Guide to EM

APRIL 8, 2023

This is something that has only happened once since 2006 ( Ottawa Citizen March 28, 2023 ) The study referred to in the editorial looks at the experience in Denmark with a reconfiguration of their emergency healthcare services ( Flojstrup et al 2023 ). This was not the only study to come out of the Danish reconfiguration initiative.

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Pediatric Education

OCTOBER 22, 2023

What are potential complications for large for gestational infants?

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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. 2006 Apr;17(3):225-6. The remainder of the physical examination is unremarkable. Epub 2004 Sep 7. Merminod T, Pellicciotta S, Bounameaux H.

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Cook County EM Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

X-rays showed radiopaque foreign bodies confined to the distal thumb without fracture. 2006 Jul;20(7):503-11. There were no signs of infection, compartment syndrome, tissue necrosis, or limb ischemia. Orthopedics was consulted and recommended outpatient follow up in several days. Epub 2008 Feb 2. PMID: 18427921; PMCID: PMC2291478.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The two most common complications of VP shunts are malfunction (due to obstruction, fracture, or kinking) or infection. Paediatric Resp Rev (2006) 7, 162–168 Wright SE,VanDahm K. The most common causes are tumor, congenital anomalies, hemorrhage, or post-infectious obstructions. of them were removed for clinical improvement.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In fact, one of my surgeon grandfather's ortho buddies (perhaps with the help of some lunchtime martinis) took a look at the x-rays of my Boxer's Fracture and snapped it back into place without any analgesia or procedural sedation, casted me, and sent me home. Still no pain medicine. World journal of emergency medicine, 3(1), 5. [

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

6 Periprosthetic fracture Occurs at an estimated rate of 3.5-4.1%. 5 CT if concern for occult fracture. Periprosthetic Fractures Pain prior to injury may point toward underlying pathology like infection, implant loosening, etc. Unified classification system used to describe periprosthetic hip fractures. 10% of patients.

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EMDocs

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Answer : CSF Leak Epidemiology: CSF leaks are broken into three main causes Craniofacial trauma: approximately 80% of cases 1 3% of blunt head and 9% of penetrating head trauma patients have CSF leaks Basilar skull fractures commonly occur with CSF leaks (up to 30%) Iatrogenic: approximately 16% of cases 1 3.8% 2006 Jan;29(1):64-71.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JANUARY 1, 2017

Some are simple comfort measures such as splinting (fracture or sprain), applying cold (acute soft tissue injury) or heat (non-traumatic, non-specific pain), or other targeted non-pharmacology. Long-bone injuries Fracture pain should be addressed immediately with splinting and analgesia. 2006 Oct;118(4):e1078-86. Pediatrics.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Costochondritis, rib fractures, and pericarditis are common causes of chest pain that can be treated with multimodal regimens. 7 Rib and Sternal Fractures: Rib fractures are often caused by blunt chest trauma. Up to two-thirds of rib fractures are missed on initial chest radiographs. Most cases abate by one year.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Kidney transplant recipients have a higher risk of fractures. Kidney transplant recipients are at higher risk of rickets and fractures. (13) Incidence and predictors of fractures in children after solid organ transplantation: a 5‐year prospective, population‐based study. Any history of injury? Pediatric Nephrology , 36 , pp.2453-2461.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

Many authors feel NTI is absolutely or relatively contraindicated with potential basilar skull fractures; there is also opinion arguing that airway protection trumps the extreme rarity of this complication. Intracranial placement of a nasotracheal tube after facial fracture: a rare complication. Sinusitis can occur in long intubation.

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