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Red Leg in the Heartland of America: A Rural Physician’s Approach to the Patient with a Potential DVT

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Johnson, MD ( Community EM, Salina Regional Health Center) // Reviewed by: Joshua Lowe, MD (EM Attending Physician, USAF); Marina Boushra, MD (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, EM-CCM); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Case A 40-year-old woman presents to a rural emergency department (ED) with left leg pain and swelling for the past 5 days.

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Perspectives – Aortic Laceration in a Rural Mississippi ED: A resident’s response

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As usual, I was the only physician staffing this rural critical access hospital with limited resources which sits 61 miles away from our state’s only Level 1 trauma center. The radiology tech has his hand on a weak femoral pulse. In the Spring of my senior year, I was moonlighting at one of the University’s satellite locations.