PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

Guidelines for field triage of injured patients: recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011. 2011 Aug;58(2):145-55. The most common injuries seen in these younger patients are growth plate fractures and ligamentous injuries. Axial load can cause burst fracture, so someone that dives into a pool.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

MARCH 1, 2016

He sustained a femur fracture, splenic laceration, and blunt head trauma – the so-called Waddell’s triad. Often children even with high-grade splenic and liver lacerations can be managed non-operatively. Unfortunately, a negative FAST cannot help with detecting or grading the laceration for non-operative management.

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Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

A 2011 meta-analysis in the journal of Academic Emergency Medicine found ESR, CRP, and PCT were not acutely useful in the diagnosis of septic arthritis due to wildly varying sensitivities and specificities between studies. 2011 Jan;3(1):118-27. 2011 Aug;18(8):781-96. 2011 Sep;18(9):1011. In: StatPearls [Internet].

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Depending on the height of the child and the height of the car, the initial impact will cause a femur fracture, a pelvic fracture, or direct abdominal trauma. 2011 Dec;71(6):1869-72. The initial impact is the greatest, and will vary depending on the child’s height and what part of his body reaches up to the bumper of the car.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

AUGUST 2, 2016

" [Coroners Society] King Richard I (the Lionheart) needed vast sums of money for the Third Crusade, operation of the kingdom, and for his ransom fro m Duke Leopold of Austria. All deaths involving hip fractures if the attending physician believes the fracture caused or contributed to the cause of death. Accessed 07/30/2016.

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Northwestern EM Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Physical examination should always include an attempt to ambulate the child unless there is an obvious contraindication noted immediately (eg open fracture). Management is orthopedic consultation for operative stabilization [12]. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2011-301245. References Smith E, Anderson M, Foster H. 2012;97(5):185-193.

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EMDocs

JUNE 21, 2023

Labs do not play a significant role Imaging X-ray : Start with plain films to look for fracture near laceration, intra-articular free air, radiopaque foreign body. Common operator errors Failing to enter joint capsule before injecting STS. 2011 Nov;71(5):E110-3. While suggestive of TA, not sensitive or specific.

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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.

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Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

to divert the plane). for detecting major injuries Abnormal CXR Rapid deceleration mechanism Presence of a distracting injury Chest wall tenderness Sternal/thoracic spine/scapular tenderness There are limited decision-making rules for thoracic spine imaging Yet a study (Inaba et al., 2015) reported a sensitivity of 98.9%

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EMDocs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The value of ultrasound for detecting hand fractures: A meta-analysis. Open Fracture. Current concepts in the evaluation and treatment of mallet finger injury. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2013;132(4):560e-566e. doi:10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182a0148c 0b013e3182a0148c Zhao W, Wang G, Chen B, et al. Medicine (Baltimore). 2019;98(44):e17823.

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PulmCCM

MARCH 7, 2025

Any self-respecting surgeon or anesthesiologist will tell you that patients undergoing surgery before the weekend receive just as high a quality of care as those operated on earlier in the week. between 2008 and 2011, patients in the U.K. overall—but they also found that patients with operations on Sundays had increased risk.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 10, 2023

This is partly because the hands (including fingers) of children & young people have a tendency to fracture without as much compressive force being applied to the bones when compared with adult hands. The resulting injuries include crush injuries, fractures, avulsions, lacerations and amputations. No bone is exposed.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

They also proved that only expired air resuscitation guaranteed sufficient inflation volumes; that exhaled air was a suitable resuscitating gas; and that the operator would have continuous feedback from each breath. Intracranial placement of a nasotracheal tube after facial fracture: a rare complication. June 6, 2011.

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Mind The Bleep

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Feel: Palpate the area of the bite to feel for areas of tenderness as this could indicate a fracture or infection. There should be a minimum of 2 views in the plain film, or 3 in the hands if there is a suspicion of a fracture. Comorbidities Diabetes and immunosuppression increase infection risk and severity 11. Regular medications.

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