trauma

The emDocs Podcast returns with two orthopedic conditions: tibial plateau fractures and knee dislocation.

Resuscitative thoracotomy is an essential procedure to know for emergency clinicians. This post provides the indications, contraindications, steps, and pearls.

Does thromboelastography have utility in non-traumatic bleeding?

From its inception in the 1970s, there has been continued evolution in how we approach RSI (and airway management in general) in the physiologically threatened patient – this post will focus on the trauma patient.

How do you evaluate and manage stab wounds to the chest and abdomen? This post discusses this and more.

In this episode we review the “lethal 6” and “hidden 6” chest injuries that comprise the deadly dozen of thoracic trauma.

Fast forward to today and we are finding all kinds of uses for TXA other than trauma including post-partum hemorrhage, epistaxis, hemoptysis, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and many more.

A 22-year-old male is brought in by EMS to the ED after falling 20 feet. He landed primarily on his right leg, which is now obviously deformed with broken skin and exposed bone distally. He is in obvious pain with a grossly deformed right ankle. Pulses are normal and equal bilaterally. What’s the next step in your evaluation and treatment?

This month’s medical malpractice insights brings you a tough case of a combined hip dislocation with fracture.