Mind The Bleep

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Your skills as a doctor need to be different to your hospital role or abilities. What illnesses or injuries do we see? Official statistics from 2023 from SMR tell us the majority of our callouts are trauma, with lower leg and ankle injuries accounting for 57% of callouts.

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EM Guide Wire

MAY 19, 2019

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Northwestern EM Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

What are the next best steps for evaluation and treatment of his injury? Figure 1: Knee laceration Background Traumatic arthrotomy is defined as a soft tissue injury over a joint that penetrates the joint space. Reporting 10/10 pain over the laceration. In the SLT you are giving the patient a sudden acute joint effusion.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 10, 2023

Soft tissue injuries are also very common and can also occur as children explore the world in younger years often trapping digits in doors and through accidents during play and sporting activities. How would you manage this injury? This injury is a type of nail bed injury. And when would you refer?

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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. Skin and Soft tissue Skin and soft tissue injuries or abscesses often require solid non-pharmacopoeia in addition to local anesthetics.

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Mind The Bleep

JANUARY 24, 2025

Events of the injury which include: Mechanism (crush, sharp, penetrating, fall) gives an idea of the energy involved, the extent of injury, trapped foreign bodies and potential collateral injury to surrounding structures. Pre-hospital management including intubation, IV fluids, cardiac monitoring, analgesia etc.

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