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. 2016 Feb;50(2):98-101. Epub 2016 Feb 11. The remainder of the physical examination is unremarkable. Vasc Endovascular Surg. Ann Plast Surg.

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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. Accessed 2/29/2016. Accessed 2/29/2016. Accessed 2/2/2016.

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RebelEM

MARCH 9, 2023

Assess for blood in the nares or signs of basal skull fracture, including battle signs, raccoon eyes, or hemotympanum. Check that clavicles are intact and that there are no obvious rib fractures or spinal step-offs. 2016 Feb 4;65:242-51. Any report of trauma should prompt evaluation with imaging. Osteopathic Family Physician.

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ACEP Now

MARCH 14, 2024

In our case, the patient had a CT of the head, cervical spine, and chest, abdomen, and pelvis with intravenous contrast demonstrated a C2, C7 compression fracture with significant bowel edema (Figure 4), and was taken to the operating room for left arm disarticulation, left below knee amputation and right above knee amputation.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

4 Pain is the most common reason for presentation in the early post operative period. 5 Highest risk of dislocation early in the post operative course due to laxity of the soft tissue after surgery. 6 Hip flexion or adduction in the early post-operative period can cause atraumatic dislocations (typically avoided for 6 weeks post-op).

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Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

This finding was not significantly different among operators with different levels of experience, or between adults and children. 2016 Dec;115(6):317-21. Identifying serious causes of back pain: cancer, infection, fracture. 2016 Aug 23;134(8):e113. Bray C, Bell LN, Liang H, Haykal R, Kaiksow F, Mazza JJ, Yale SH.

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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% 2016 Jun;13(2):87-90.

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EB Medicine

JUNE 6, 2019

Nachi: For more information on HIV and its management, check out the February 2016 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice , which covered this and more in depth. For patients with suspected ruptured AAA, torsion, or mesenteric ischemia - the disposition is easy - they need immediate surgical consultation and likely operative intervention.

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EMDocs

JUNE 3, 2023

How should pelvic fractures be identified in unstable trauma patients? Pelvic fractures can involve disruptions in any of the bony or ligamentous structures of the pelvic ring. Due to the round shape of the pelvic ring, multiple fractures typically occur concurrently. 2 Vertical shear fractures are also unstable.

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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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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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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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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

in 2016, is a more succinct evaluation for LVO that has been shown to be as sensitive and more specific than the NIHSS. 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.

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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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RebelEM

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Accessed on April 20, 2016.) Anterior dislocations: palpation of the TMJ can reveal one or both of the condyles to be anteriorly displaced in front of the articular eminence. Philadelphia: Mosby Elsevier, 2010. Mendez DR et al. Reduction of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dislocations. In: UpToDate, Post TW (Ed), UpToDate, Waltham, MA.

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