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Distal Radius Fractures

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Distal radius fractures are commonly encountered in the ED. We review the topic with a focus on management and appropriate reduction.
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Post-It Pearls 4.0

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Teaching on a clinical shift can sometimes be difficult: it’s busy, everyone’s running around and it’s hard to capture a trainees attention. Recently, on twitter, Amal Mattu (@amalmattu) has been posting pictures of his white board teaching: discrete pearls written down and shared with anyone who walks by. The pearls are often prompted by patients presenting during that shift but they don’t have to be.
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False Negative NCHCT in SAH

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Patients presenting with severe, sudden onset headaches can present a challenge to Emergency Physicians. While most headaches are benign, a minority of them are  a symptom of aneurysmal subarachnoid headaches (aSAH); a rare but life-threatening emergency. The traditional workup for diagnosing an aSAH includes a noncontrast CT scan of the head (NCHCT), followed by a lumbar puncture (LP) if the initial NCHCT is negative.
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Emergency Management of Blast Crisis

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Blast crisis is a rare, life-threatening emergency requiring early recognition and aggressive resuscitation.
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Post-It Pearls 3.0

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Teaching on a clinical shift can sometimes be difficult: it’s busy, everyone’s running around and it’s hard to capture a trainees attention. Recently, on twitter, Amal Mattu (@amalmattu) has been posting pictures of his white board teaching: discrete pearls written down and shared with anyone who walks by. The pearls are often prompted by patients presenting during that shift but they don’t have to be.
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Parenteral Ketorlac Dosing

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Thanks to Salim Rezaie for guest editing this post which is cross-posted on REBEL EM.

Ketorolac is a commonly used parenteral analgesic in the Emergency Department (ED) for a variety of indications ranging from musculoskeletal injuries to renal colic. This non steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) is available in oral, intranasal and parenteral routes.
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Scaphoid Fractures

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Scaphoid fractures are common, easily missed and missed fractures have significant morbidity. We review identification and management.
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