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Wrist Injuries: Pearls and Pitfalls

October 28, 2014
Justin Bright
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Wrist pain is a frequent emergency department complaint. Most presentations are due to an acute traumatic injury. Furthermore, overuse or repetitive motion mechanisms cause ED visits for either an acute injury or an exacerbation of chronic pain conditions. For the purposes of this post, the wrist is going to be

Naloxone in the News: Time to Address our Opioid Abuse Problem

October 27, 2014
Jason Brown
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Naloxone has been proven to reduce the incident of death in acute opioid overdoses. So why aren't we using it more often?

Thromboelastography (TEG®) for Trauma

October 24, 2014
Zach Radwine
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Editor's note: This article was listed in LITFL Review 154's "Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care" section.

Using thromboelastography in goal-oriented algorithms, clinicians may be able to optimize targeted transfusion therapies with specific coagulation factor(s) instead of empirically administering multiple components with potentially hazardous effects.

Bounceback: An Unrelenting Headache

October 23, 2014
Rachel Wightman
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CC: Headache First visit HPI: 29 year old female with a prior history of headaches, presented with two days of gradual onset, atraumatic, right sided headache that is throbbing in nature. The patient reported heaviness about the eye but no visual changes or disturbances. No neck pain, fevers, chills. She

Don't be RASH: Emergency Physician's Approach to the Undifferentiated Lesion

October 22, 2014
Genine Siciliano
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Editor's note: This post was listed in both the #FOAMED Review from EM Curious AND in the LITFL Review 154 "Best of #FOAMed" section.

As an EM physician, it is difficult to have working knowledge of the hundreds of different types of rashes that exist. However,

Left Bundle Branch Block in Myocardial Infarction: An Update

October 22, 2014
Ellie Salinski
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Editor's note: This article was listed in the LITFL Review 154's "Best of #FOAMed" section.

The left bundle branch arises from the Bundle of His, and subsequently is divided into the anterior and posterior fascicles. The anterior fascicle is usually supplied by septal perforators from the Left Anterior