A four-year-old female with no medical history presented to the emergency department with right leg pain and refusal to walk after falling while in her father’s arms. She was being carried by her father down a flight of outdoor concrete stairs when he slipped on black ice and her leg struck the ground. The patient refused to walk after the fall and her mother noted that her leg had been “cracking” since the accident…
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Your patient is a 25-year-old male with a right hand laceration presenting the day after a “fight.” The patient says that he doesn’t remember what happened because he and his friends were drinking but thinks that he might have gotten into a fight the preceding night…
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A 43 year-old female with a past medical history of migraine headaches presented to the emergency department with a severe, diffuse headache. The headache started suddenly, waking her from sleep about two hours prior to arrival, and was described as the worst headache of her life. The headache was not improved with home ibuprofen or Tylenol, prompting her visit to the emergency department. Upon further questioning, the patient noted the headache was associated with neck stiffness, diaphoresis, and subjective fever…
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
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