ACEP Now

MARCH 14, 2024

A 44 year-old male with unknown past medical history came by emergency medical services (EMS) to the emergency department (ED) for an electrical injury and fall from a high voltage electrical pole. Dr. Koo is faculty and an emergency physician at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.,

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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. There is a spectrum of DRUJ injuries from minor sprain to subluxation to dislocation. He complains of pain both in the palm of his hand and in the wrist.

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ACEP Now

OCTOBER 15, 2023

On arrival to the emergency department (ED) she was awake and breathing with stridor. Laryngotracheal trauma has been cited as accounting for less than one in 100,000 hospital admissions. The major injury was to her face and neck, with lacerations and bites to her legs.

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 15, 2023

When I fracture-dislocated my ankle on Mount Rainier, there was no one to do the emergency reduction; so, aided by a rush of endorphins and the lack of swelling, I did it myself. I was recently hospitalized for a fever of unknown origin at a well-respected teaching hospital. My doctors were wonderful.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Answer : Posterior dislocation of a periprosthetic hip Epidemiology: Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) is the 4 th most common surgical procedures in the United States (2.3% 4 Dislocation is the most common complication after THA occurring at a rate of 0.2-10% 5-7 Dislocation rate as high as 28% in revision THA. 10% of patients.

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Taming the SRU

MARCH 11, 2024

Acute knee dislocations are rare orthopedic injuries that have high morbidity and need to be recognized quickly by the emergency physician; if unrecognized or inadequately treated, these injuries can lead to vascular and limb compromise (1,2). Knee dislocations make up less than 0.5% Knee dislocations make up less than 0.5%

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Overnight stay in the emergency department and mortality in older patients, JAMA Intern Med 2023 Date: December 18, 2023 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Carpenter, Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic. Chris Carpenter, Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic. Reference: Roussel et al. Reference: Roussel et al.

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RebelEM

MAY 22, 2023

For instance, while pain resulting from extremity fractures and dislocations can often be relieved after reduction and splinting, abdominal pain poses a more elusive and complex scenario involving multiple contributing factors. The quality of emergency department pain care for older adult patients. 2010;58(11):2122-2128.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MARCH 22, 2019

Date: March 20th, 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr.Katie Walker is an emergency physician in Melbourne, Australia. She is a clinical researcher at Cabrini Hospital and an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Monash University. Case: The emergency department is backing up. Case: The emergency department is backing up.

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EMDocs

JUNE 3, 2023

Her Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is 14 (3E-5V-6M), and she arrives in a cervical collar placed pre-hospital. Limb-length discrepancy is not often apparent in pelvic fractures and would be more suggestive of a femoral fracture or dislocation. Her initial vital signs are blood pressure 76/54 mmHg, heart rate 128 bpm, temperature 37.0˚

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ACEP Now

MARCH 5, 2025

Our residents like to say that they are doers and not callers because our hospital does not have residencies in ortho, ophthalmology, ENT, and so on. This means that we get so much hands-on experience doing procedures like fracture/dislocation reductions, complex laceration repairs, ENT procedures, and advanced eye exams.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 6, 2025

Reviewed by: Mikaeel Jaffer Article 2: Does the duration of pre-hospital CPR affect neurological outcomes? Yasuda M, Amagasa S, Kashiura M, et alDuration of prehospital and in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation and neurological outcome in paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrestEmergency Medicine Journal 2024;41:742-748.

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