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…
Thoracic Injection Therapy
8 Thoracic Injection Therapy Acute and chronic pain in the thoracic spine plays only a minor role compared to that of the cervical and lumbar spine. This applies both to…
General and Specific Complications and Treatment Measures
10 General and Specific Complications and Treatment Measures Vasovagal Syncope Vasovagal syncope and orthostatic collapse are associated mainly with a drop in blood pressure, tinnitus, pallor, nausea, and in some…
Multimodal Spinal Therapy
11 Multimodal Spinal Therapy The spectrum of treatment for back and neck pain ranges from the simple application of heat and administration of analgesics at one extreme to open surgery…
