What do you need to know about pediatric radial head fractures?

This week's emDocs.net podcast looks at acute acalculous cholecystitis, mastitis and breast abscess, and LV aneurysm ECG findings.

What do you do with the pediatric patient with prolonged fever? Could it be Kawasaki Disease, Toxic Shock Syndrome, or Multi-inflammatory Syndrome of Children?

A 40-year-old female presents to your Emergency Department with three days of pain and swelling in her right index finger. On exam, her right index finger is diffusely swollen, erythematous, and held in flexion. There is a punctate wound on the dorsal finger distal to the  DIP. She has significant tenderness to palpation of the flexor compartment of the finger and pain on extension. What is your next step in evaluation and treatment?

Johnny has fallen on an outstretched hand, and comes to you with a swollen, painful elbow. Position of comfort, analgesia, xrays, and now what? What am I seeing — or not seeing — here?

What do you need to know about sternoclavicular dislocation?

What does emergency medicine have to do with health disparities, and what can we do to address these issues?

This month Medical Malpractice Insights covers the tough diagnosis of necrotizing fasciitis.