Pancreatic Injury
PANCREATIC INJURY GRETA L. PIPER & ADRIAN A. MAUNG CASE SCENARIO A 45-year-old man with no significant past medical history was a restrained driver in a motor vehicle collision. Paramedics…
Blunt Intestinal Injury
BLUNT INTESTINAL INJURY BRAD OLBERDING & ARA J. FEINSTEIN CASE SCENARIO A 47-year-old woman is the restrained driver in a high-speed motor vehicle crash. She has a prolonged extrication time…
Esophageal Perforation
ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATION ASHOK MUNIAPPAN CASE SCENARIO A 61-year-old woman with a history of Roux-en-y gastric bypass for morbid obesity presents with dysphagia and vomiting. She undergoes esophagogastroscopy at an outside…
Pancreatitis
PANCREATITIS PETER J. FAGENHOLZ CASE SCENARIO A 54-year-old man with no past medical history presents to the emergency department with 24 hours of abdominal pain. The pain started the day…
Cardiac Tamponade
CARDIAC TAMPONADE LEE HALLAGAN & ALOK GUPTA CASE SCENARIO A 22-year-old man is brought to the emergency department (ED) after an altercation in which he was stabbed in the left…
Ultrasound: Basics
ULTRASOUND: BASICS ABTAHI SEYED MAHDI, SANDEEP HEDGIRE, RACHEL BORCZUK, AZADEH ELMI, & MUKESH HARISINGHANI ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS Ultrasound imaging uses the pulse-echo principle in which a short burst of sound waves…
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
NECROTIZING SOFT TISSUE INFECTION DAVID FINK & MARC DEMOYA CASE SCENARIO A 53-year-old obese man presents to the emergency department complaining of one day of progressive pain and swelling of…
Lumbar Injection Therapy
9 Lumbar Injection Therapy Pain in the lumbar spine primarily arises in the two inferior lumbar vertebral motor segments, i. e., L4/L5 and L5/S1. One reason why the most marked…
Cervical Injection Therapy
7 Cervical Injection Therapy Specialized Cervical Neuroanatomy Chronic cervical pain arises primarily in the lower cervical vertebral motor segments from C5 to T1. One reason for this is that the…
Symptomatic Pain Therapy
4 Symptomatic Pain Therapy Introduction Symptomatic orthopedic pain therapy concentrates on nociception in bones, muscles, tendons, and joints after the pain stimulus has already acted on the body. This means…
