2012 Emergency Department Fractures 
ALiEM
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
A 32-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) from an outside hospital for further management of right eye pain and vision loss sustained after he was struck by a metal wire while at work. Laboratory Data CT Orbits/Sella w/ IV Contrast : No acute orbital fracture.
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
AUGUST 17, 2019
Opioid Use and Misuse Three Months After Emergency Department Visit for Acute Pain. AEM August 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. Opioid Use and Misuse Three Months After Emergency Department Visit for Acute Pain.
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Mind The Bleep
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
In this injury, there is a fracture of the orbital floor and the inferior orbital rim remains intact. The “teardrop sign” is a radiological sign of inferior orbital wall fractures in which intraorbital fat +/- inferior rectus muscle herniates through the fracture. Teardrop sign (inferior orbital wall fracture).
ACEP Now
MARCH 15, 2024
A 20-year-old man presents to the emergency department (ED) directly from the scene of a fall from a bicycle, where he lost balance and landed on his outstretched hand. Children and older adults have weaker long bones than young adults and are more likely to sustain a distal radius fracture after a FOOSH than a carpal bone injury.
Taming the SRU
MAY 22, 2023
Ankle fractures are the third most common fracture in the ED [2] and more than 20,000 patients are seen in the ED for ankle sprains each day [3]. traumatic axial loading with calcaneal fractures, pilons, and vertebral compression fractures) [5]. Gross deformities often suggest fracture or dislocation [Image 2].
Taming the SRU
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) accounts for millions of Emergency Department visits annually. While moderate and severe TBI is often managed on an inpatient basis, patients presenting with mild TBI, or concussion, are often managed solely by Emergency physicians.
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
APRIL 8, 2023
John Brown PhD is a Professor of Health Services Research in Ireland who has been studying rural healthcare issues since 2012. There have been many “temporary” rural emergency department closures during the past last year. It was a stepped-wedge reconfiguration of the entire Danish emergency healthcare system.
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