2007 Best Practices Fractures 
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.
EMDocs
MAY 29, 2023
Best practices advise not to routinely order an ESR to evaluate for inflammation in an undifferentiated patient and to instead order a CRP when evaluating for acute inflammation (4). 2007 Aug;12(4):353-7. Identifying serious causes of back pain: cancer, infection, fracture. Am J Clin Pathol. 2020 Jan 1;153(1):14-29.
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