The Skeptics' Guide to EM

DECEMBER 17, 2022

EMS have already splinted an obvious mid-shaft femoral fracture, but he continues to be tachycardic and hypotensive. After a bedside ultrasound shows fluid in the right hemithorax, you insert an intercostal drain which immediately fills with one litre of blood.

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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. EM makes a strong push into bedside use of ultrasound sonography.

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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. In other words, feel free to use ultrasound – especially for things that we in the ED will react to and intervene on – but CT may help to manage the traumatized child non-operatively. 2014 Apr;63(4):460-2. Acad Emerg Med.

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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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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. neutropenia) ( Babl 2011 , Dokko 2014 ). Long-bone injuries Fracture pain should be addressed immediately with splinting and analgesia.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

23 Blunt carotid injury is more likely in patients with at least one of the following: Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ≤ 6, fracture of petrous bone, presence of diffuse axonal brain injury, and LeFort II/III fractures. 23 BCVI should be suspected with any high-energy trauma or any fractures of the maxilla or mandible. Tenenbaum, M.

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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].

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 17, 2023

Reviews and opinion articles Point-of-care ultrasound in pediatric nephrology. Original clinical studies Distribution and pattern of hand fractures in children and adolescents. 2023 Jun 14;46:8-23 One-year survival and outcomes of infants born at 22 and 23 weeks of gestation in Sweden 2004-2007, 2014-2016 and 2017-2019.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Kidney transplant recipients have a higher risk of fractures. An ultrasound scan of the graft is usually sufficient to rule out these complications. Kidney transplant recipients are at higher risk of rickets and fractures. (13) Ask about the frequency of intermittent catheterization, if applicable. Any history of injury?

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