Items tagged “emergencymedicine”
258 results found
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Jefferson fracture
Published
03 May 2010
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Retropharyngeal abscess
Retropharyngeal abscess is a potentially life-threatening infection involving the retropharyngeal space which requires prompt diagnosis and aggressive therapy.
Epidemiology
Retropharyngeal abscesses are most frequently encountered in children, with 75% of cases occurring before the age of 5 ye...
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Ulnar impaction syndrome
Ulnar impaction syndrome, also known as ulnar abutment or ulnocarpal impaction or loading, is a painful degenerative wrist condition caused by the ulnar head impacting upon the ulnar-sided carpus with the injury to the triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC).
Differentiation from ulnar impinge...
Case
Transorbital penetrating brain injury
Published
29 May 2010
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Case
Scapholunate dissociation
Published
30 May 2010
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Lobar nephronia
Lobar nephronia, also known as acute focal nephritis, refers to an intermediate stage between acute pyelonephritis and renal abscess, and is a focal region of interstitial nephritis.
It appears as a wedge of poorly perfused renal parenchyma, without a cortical rim sign.
The condition is discu...
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Non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema (mnemonic)
The causes of non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema can be recalled with the following mnemonic:
NOT CARDIAC
Mnemonic
NOT CARDIAC
N: near drowning
O: O2 therapy/post-intubation pulmonary edema
T: trauma/transfusion (TRALI: transfusion-related acute lung injury)
C: CNS: neu...
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Bone infarction
Bone infarction is a term used to refer to osteonecrosis within the metaphysis or diaphysis of a bone. Necrosis is a type of cell death due to irreversible cell injury, which can be recognized microscopically by alterations in the cytoplasm (becomes eosinophilic) and in the nucleus (swelling, py...
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Hangman fracture
Published
05 Jul 2010
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Subacromial-subdeltoid bursa
The subacromial-subdeltoid bursa (SASD), also simply known as the subacromial bursa, is a bursa within the shoulder that is simply a potential space in normal individuals.
Gross anatomy
found deep to the deltoid muscle and the coraco-acromial arch
medially in close relation to the acromio-cla...
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Intraventricular bleed with skull base fracture
Published
02 Aug 2010
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Diffuse axonal injury and extra-axial bleed
Published
02 Aug 2010
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Extradural hematoma
Published
10 Aug 2010
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Large joint dislocation
Large joint dislocations are a frequent presentation to emergency departments. Described in descending order of commonality:
shoulder dislocation
elbow dislocation
posterior dislocation of the hip
knee dislocation
Case
Foreign body - knife in liver
Published
25 Aug 2010
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Perilunate dislocation
Published
05 Sep 2010
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Sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD) (historically also known as drepanocytosis) is a hereditary (autosomal recessive) condition resulting in the formation of abnormal hemoglobin (a hemoglobinopathy), which manifests as multisystem ischemia and infarction, as well as hemolytic anemia.
Hemoglobin SC (HbSC...
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Susac syndrome
Susac syndrome, also known as retinocochleocerebral vasculopathy or SICRET syndrome (small infarctions of cochlear, retinal and encephalic tissue), is a rare syndrome typically affecting young to middle-aged women that is clinically characterized by the triad of acute or subacute encephalopathy,...
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Skeletal muscle edema on MRI (differential)
The presence of skeletal muscle edema (increased high T2/STIR signal) on MRI carries an extremely broad differential. Potential diagnoses include:
trauma
effects of direct injury or tear
denervation injury: denervation changes in muscles
early myositis ossificans
inflammatory myopathies
de...
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Birth trauma - right clavicle fracture
Published
20 Oct 2010
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