Fast Friday #5 – Knee Injury Playing Football
A young footballer has injured their knee playing football? Do they need an X-ray and can you interpret the key findings?
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TMJ Dislocation
A 22-year-old female medical student attends the emergency department. She is unable to close her mouth after yawning in one of her biochemistry lectures. She is in some distress and is struggling to speak clearly.
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Fast Friday #4 – Diabetic with a swollen, red foot
A 60-year-old, diabetic male presents with a 2/52 history of swollen, erythematous foot. Is this just another cellulitis…or could it be something else?
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Distal Radius Fracture Management in the ED
Pelvic fractures are pretty common, particularly if you work in a trauma centre. From a trauma resuscitation perspective, we’re usually most concerned with whether a pelvic injury is unstable with disruption of the pelvic ring, and if there is active arterial
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Sunday Morning Cyclist With A Wrist Injury
It’s a beautiful Sunday morning outside your ED and that can mean only one thing – the cyclists are out. Where there are cyclists, there are cyclists falling over. And where there are cyclists falling over, there are limb injuries.
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