Before performing your next HEENT procedure in the emergency department, consult this comprehensive description and tutorial that covers a wide range of diagnoses and indications, from mandibular dislocation reduction to nasal septal hematoma drainage. Never call your ENT consult again!
HEENT: Tips for Addressing Your Next Procedure Read More »
You are working as an EM resident and have just evaluated a patient with a right long finger DIP joint dislocation. You perform a digital nerve block with 1% lidocaine with 1:100,000 epinephrine, and go to present to your attending before attempting the reduction. Your attending, on hearing about the epinephrine use goes berserk, and says “don’t you know that you shouldn’t use epi in fingers, noses, ears and toes?”.
R.E.B.E.L. EM – More Dogma: Epi in Digital Nerve Blocks Read More »