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Category: Emergency Medicine

The Real Emergency Room scenarios, cases and topic reviews. Medical emergency conditions – approach to diagnosis and management.

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Burn Injury : Mnemonic Approach (ATLS)

Epomedicine Aug 26, 2023 No Comments Emergency medicineSurgery

Mnemonic: BURNS Burn depth and body surface area (BSA) Burn degree Burn depth Features Healing Mnemonic: Number of degrees = Number of structures involved Mnemonic:…

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Glasgow Coma Scale

Epomedicine Aug 23, 2023 No Comments Clinical examinationEmergency medicineNervous system

Best eye opening Mnemonic: ESPN Best verbal response Mnemonic: ASWGN Best motor response Mnemonic: OLD BEN Important points Question and Example A 20 year old…

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Aortic dissection

Epomedicine Aug 15, 2023 No Comments Cardiovascular systemEmergency medicineInternal medicine

Risk factors Mnemonic: ABCDE Pathophysiology Intimal tear allows blood to enter between intima-media space creating a false lumen. Blood may propagate proximal or distal to…

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Hematoma Block

Epomedicine May 31, 2023 No Comments Emergency medicineMusculoskeletal systemOrthopedics

Hematoma block is a technique in which a local anesthetic agent is injected directly into the hematoma surrounding the fracture, the location of which is…

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Emergency Medicine Surgical Skills

Circumferential Periosteal Block (CPB)

Dr. Sulabh Kumar Shrestha, MS Orthopedics May 28, 2023 No Comments AnesthesiaOrthopedics

Use: Alternative to hematoma block in reduction of distal radius and ulna fractures Advantage: Providing distance from the fracture hematoma (no theoretical risk of converting…

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Conus Medullaris Syndrome vs Cauda Equina Syndrome : Anatomical basis and Mnemonic

Epomedicine May 8, 2022 No Comments Emergency medicineNervous systemOrthopedics

Definitions Condition Vertebral level of injury Neurological level of injury ISNCI level of injury Conus Medullaris Syndrome (CMS) T12-L2 T12-S5 T11 Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES)…

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Bier Block

Epomedicine Jan 11, 2022 No Comments AnesthesiaOrthopedics

Named after: German Surgeon August Bier (first introduced the block in 1908) Definition: It is a peripheral intravenous local anesthetic block (IVRA; Intravenous Regional Anesthesia)…

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Handtevy Method : Emergency Drug Dose by Age

Epomedicine Sep 11, 2021 No Comments Emergency medicinePediatrics

To obtain the correct weight for each age, assign each finger a chronological odd number starting with 1, representing the age in years. Now, using…

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