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Posterior Shoulder Dislocation
Posterior Shoulder Dislocation
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Posterior Shoulder Dislocation

The CASE A 52 yo patient presents following a fall onto the right outstretched hand.…
Hip Dislocation
Hip Dislocation
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Hip Dislocation

Introduction This review is based on a great journal article just published (1) The most…
Davos Technique - Shoulder relocation
Davos Technique - Shoulder relocation
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The Davos Technique for Shoulder relocation

Patients with shoulder dislocations are not an uncommon presentations to the Emergency Department. The ability…
Pronator Quadratus Sign - Orthopaedics
Pronator Quadratus Sign - Orthopaedics
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Pronator Quadratus Sign

The pronator Quadratus sign is a sign seen on the lateral X-ray of the wrist/forearm…
Compartment Syndrome - RESUS - Emergency Medicine Education
Compartment Syndrome - RESUS - Emergency Medicine Education
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Compartment Syndrome

Compartment Syndrome, is usually straightforward to pick up. How do we measure Compartment pressures? Below…
Third carpal arch
Third carpal arch
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Gilula’s Carpal Arcs

Gilula's carpal arcs are used to determine carpal alignment. They can assist in identifying ligamentous…
Elbow Fractures
Elbow Fractures
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Elbow Fractures

How good are you at reading elbow X-rays? Here are some tools and rules that…
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Maisonneuve FractureBlogOrthopaedicsTrauma

Maisonneuve Fracture

A Maisonneuve fracture is caused by pronation and external rotation. It can be difficult to…
Scapholunate Dissociation
Scapholunate Dissociation
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Scapholunate Dissociation

Introduction Scapholunate dissociation, also called rotatory subluxation of the scaphoid and sometimes also known as…
Galeazzi Fracture
Galeazzi Fracture
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Galeazzi Fracture

The forearm X-ray of a young man following a dirt bike accident are shown. Clinically he…
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Emergency Medicine Education - Resus
Reflex Sympathetic DystrophyBlogOrthopaedics

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

Introduction and a case Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy,  also called regional pain syndrome,  is usually as…
Unstable Pelvic Fractures
Unstable Pelvic Fractures
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Unstable Pelvic Fractures

Pelvic fractures are most often associated with massive trauma. In terms of skeletal injuries they…
Hip Relocation Made Easy
Hip Relocation Made Easy
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Hip Relocation Made Easy

Here is a quick video on the Whistler technique for hip relocation. Its quick and…
Scaphoid Fractures
Scaphoid Fractures
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Diagnosis of Scaphoid Fractures

Here is the case You have a 24 year old, right-handed tradesman, with who fell…

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Guillain Barre Syndrome

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Steroids in Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia

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Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus

I recently wrote about a case of status epilepticus in a child. In that case…