PEM Playbook – Blunt Head Trauma
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?
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Trauma Falls – Pearls & Pitfalls for Special Populations
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.
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Missed injuries in trauma patients – an Emergency Medicine Perspective
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.
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EM@3AM: Pelvic Ring Fracture
A 23-year-old male is brought in by EMS from the scene of a severe accident. He is hypotensive and tachycardic, with a mangled right lower extremity and right upper extremity. EMS applied a tourniquet to both the right upper and lower extremity. Your initial primary survey reveals properly placed tourniquets. With inward pressure on the iliac wings, you detect pelvic instability. What’s the diagnosis, and what’s your next step in your evaluation and treatment?
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EM Boards Survival Guide: Trauma 1
Welcome back to the EM Boards Survival Guide. This week we cover Trauma!
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The EM Educator Series: Neck trauma and myriad of hidden injuries
Trauma to the neck encompasses a wide array of separate injuries. This post in the EM educator series looks at several cases with questions concerning these injuries.
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Persistent Midline C-Spine Tenderness After a Negative CT Scan: What’s The Next Step?
The patient with neck pain after a normal CT… Can you trust your CT? Do you need an MRI? This post evaluates these controversies and more.
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Genitourinary Trauma: Presentations, Evaluation, and Management Updates
Genitourinary trauma can present significant challenges. This post provides updates in the evaluation and management of patients with GU trauma.
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EM Cases: Blunt Ocular Trauma
EM Cases discusses the most important diagnoses to consider, describe how physical exam in queen while CT can misguide you, explain a simple approach to orbital compartment syndrome with retrobulbar hematoma, give you tips on lateral canthotomy, how to pick up subtle hyphemas, why sickle cell patients are high risk, describe the key clinical clues to subtle globe rupture, the role of tranexamic acid in eye bleeds and much more…
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JournalFeed Weekly Wrap-Up
This week’s JournalFeed Wrap-Up covers a variety of topics including cricoid pressure in pediatric intubation, time to thrombolysis in ischemic stroke, and risk of thoracotomy.
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