Toxicology Question: What Is Safer to Toss Than Swallow?
Hint: It is the most common non-food item swallowed by children.
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Toxicology Question: What Is Safer to Toss Than Swallow?
Hint: It is the most common non-food item swallowed by children. -
Toxicology Answer: A Coin
Dr. Jason Hack reviews an ED pica case to clarify imaging, location risks, and when coin ingestion warrants emergent intervention. -
How To Identify and Treat Patellar Dislocation Versus Knee Dislocation
The Case A 15-year-old boy presents to the emergency department with acute left knee pain. While playing...
Toxicology Answer: A Coin
Dr. Jason Hack reviews an ED pica case to clarify imaging, location risks, and when coin ingestion warrants emergent intervention.
How To Identify and Treat Patellar Dislocation Versus Knee Dislocation
The Case A 15-year-old boy presents to the emergency department with acute left knee pain. While playing…
Online Clinical Tool for Post–Bariatric Surgery Patients Could Improve Management
Members of ACEP’s Emergency Medicine Practice Committee, along with the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery,…
Identify and Treat Lisfranc Injuries
The Case A 24-year-old male presents to the emergency department after sustaining an injury to his right…
Treating Headaches Doesn’t Have to Cause One
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A headache is one of the common presentations in the emergency department. Of course, the vast…
Imaging Not a Necessity for Spine Evaluation in Trauma Patients
Not all trauma patients need to be imaged, said Swaminatha Mahadevan, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine…