Posts in Trauma
Under Pressure: An Uncommon Location for Compartment Syndrome

A 35-year-old-patient presents following motor vehicle collision as a restrained passenger. The vehicle's dashboard was displaced into the cabin, causing prolonged entrapment of the patient’s lower extremities. The patient’s left thigh was noted by EMS to have an obvious deformity with bleeding from an anterior wound. A tourniquet was placed to the proximal left thigh. A deformity was also noted to the right thigh without obvious external hemorrhage…

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Fire-related Injuries in Children

“EMS called with a pediatric code in progress from a house fire, approximately 5 minutes out. A 2-year-old female with unknown past medical history was brought in with CPR in progress. History was limited as there was no family with the patient. Per EMS, firefighters were called to scene of a house fire and the patient and her sister were found in an upstairs bedroom, both unresponsive and pulseless…”

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Age Matters: Managing Femur Fractures in Kids

“In one overnight shift on the orthopedics service, our team evaluated three different pediatric patients with the same underlying injury: a femoral fracture. But, the management of all three children was different and the underlying reason for the different management: age….”

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