trauma

A Social Visit or Your Most Dangerous Presentation Tonight?

Anthony DeVivo is back with another post in his series on ED procedures. Today he looks at tube thoracostomy, or the chest tube!

An 28-year-old male presents after high-speed MVC with facial pain and loss of consciousness. He has severe facial pain and bruising, conjunctival hemorrhage bilaterally, and facial paresthesias. What is the patient’s diagnosis? What’s the next step in your evaluation?

How do you diagnose and manage basilar skull fractures? This post is filled with the basics, pearls, and more regarding this injury.

Welcome back to the EM Educator Series! This week we look at the challenging and frightening case of the pregnant trauma patient.

Is whole blood ready for routine use in trauma? What is the evidence behind it? This post evaluates whole blood and provides a glimpse into a currently-used protocol.

Not all head trauma is minor.
Not all minor head trauma is clinically significant.

How can we sort out the overtly ok from the sneakily serious?

Falls come in all shapes and sizes, especially with trauma. This post provides key pearls and pitfalls in special populations, including the elderly, intoxicated patients, and falls from extreme height.

Few good sentences start with ‘remember that patient?’. Missed injuries are the bane of the emergency physician’s existence. This post evaluates risk factors and ways to avoid missing vital injuries in trauma patients.