Items tagged “emergency medicine”
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Epistaxis
Epistaxis (plural: epistaxes) is the medical term for a nosebleed, and is very common in clinical practice with a broad differential diagnosis. Anterior epistaxes mainly bleed from Kiesselbach's plexus and posterior epistaxes (5% of all epistaxis) from Woodruff's plexus.
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Traumatic bowel injury
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02 Apr 2015
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Seatbelt sign (abdomen)
The seatbelt sign is both a clinical and radiological sign. It is simply the presence of ecchymosis and/or abraded skin in the distribution of a seatbelt (i.e. horizontal and/or diagonal) extending across the abdomen evident after a motor vehicle accident.
Epidemiology
A positive abdominal sea...
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Orbital blowout and retro-orbital hematoma
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10 Apr 2015
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Third metacarpal neck fracture
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29 Apr 2015
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Posterior shoulder dislocation
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03 May 2015
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Multiple cerebral contusions and temporal bone fracture
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09 Jun 2015
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Small bowel obstruction
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16 May 2015
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Tachycardia mediated cardiomyopathy
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22 May 2015
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Windswept pelvis with internal fixation
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24 Jun 2015
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Pneumoperitoneum
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11 Jul 2015
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Inferior shoulder dislocation
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10 Oct 2015
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Pneumomediastinum
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15 Sep 2015
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Hematuria (pediatric)
Hematuria in a child is evaluated differently than in an adult in two main respects:
there is a lower likelihood of a malignancy (renal or bladder) causing the hematuria
preference is given to nonionizing radiation
Pathology
Hematuria can be considered in three main forms:
"gross" hematuria...
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ETT in right main bronchus
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10 Oct 2015
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Tension pneumothorax
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10 Oct 2015
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Perforated gallbladder
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30 Oct 2015
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CT cystography
CT cystography is a variation of the traditional fluoroscopic cystogram. Instead of anterograde opacification of the urinary collecting system (as with CT urography), contrast is instilled retrograde into the patient's bladder, and then the pelvis is imaged with CT.
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suspected bladd...
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Urethral transection
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22 Nov 2015
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Perforated duodenal ulcer
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05 Jan 2016
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