A 53-year-old woman with a past medical history of hypertension arrived to the Emergency Department with left arm pain shortly after a mechanical fall on an outstretched hand…
Read MoreA 52 year old male with a history of type 2 DM presented to the ED with right shoulder pain after a fall while stepping off a bus. The patient noted that he was unable to range the shoulder. Vitals were significant for HR of 104, otherwise unremarkable. On examination, the patient had a flattened shoulder with a “squared-off” appearance, a prominent acromion with the elbow flexed, and the arm held in slight abduction…
Read MoreWe hypothesized that groups of ED HCPs with differences in workplace risks might view the benefits of vaccine differently and that vaccine hesitancy would higher in people of color.
The COVID‐19 Evaluation of Risk in Emergency Departments (COVERED) project is a multicenter, prospective cohort surveillance project for SARS‐CoV‐2 infection among ED HCPs at 20 geographically diverse, high‐volume urban U.S. academic medical centers
Read MoreA 53-year-old male with a PMH of GERD presents to the emergency department with eye pain, photophobia, and vision loss after getting popped in the eye by a broken bungee cord. He believes the tip of the cord came around “like a whip” and struck him directly on the eye…
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