Traumatic wounds are common reasons for visits to emergency departments. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY The mechanism of injury will help identify risk of foreign body, contamination, and wound complication. A foreign body sensation…
Chronic pain is a painful condition that lasts >3 months, pain that persists beyond the reasonable time for an injury to heal, or pain that persists 1 month beyond the…
Chest pain (CP) is a common ED complaint. The management of these patients can be challenging, is of critical importance, and the clinician should systematically determine if CP is cardiac…
Allergic reactions range from mild cutaneous symptoms to life-threatening anaphylaxis. Common exposures are medications, insect stings, and foods. Many cases are idiopathic. Half of the fatalities from anaphylaxis occur within…
