A 45-year-old male presents to the emergency department with a chief complaint of a fishhook injury. He was fishing on the beach this morning and caught a large fish. When he attempted to unhook the fish, he accidentally embedded the fishhook into his left hand. He attempted to remove the hook unsuccessfully prior to arrival. His tetanus status is…
Read More“A 28-year-old female presents to the emergency department for a chief complaint of finger pain after getting her hand caught in her car door. She presents with pain and blueish discoloration to the proximal aspect of the right thumb fingernail…”
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Read MoreThe patient in this case is a 64-year-old male with a history of hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, rheumatic heart disease, and a previous C3-C6 laminectomy and fusion who presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with a chief complaint of new-onset, bilateral upper extremity weakness and paresthesia following an unwitnessed fall…
Read MoreAs emergency medicine physicians, we are often in the position of screening for and diagnosing abuse and neglect in childhood…
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