Ep 175 Emergency Orthopedics Differential: SCARED OF Mnemonic – When X-rays Lie
Emergency Medicine Cases
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The Five P's of Compartment Syndrome
Dr. Cial: You need to know the five P's on your board exams, but when you go from board exam to bedside, you should forget about them. The first neurologic finding is parasthetious because the sensory nerves are the more sensitive ones. If somebody has a Tim Fib fracture, that's the most common place to actually have compartment syndrome. We're on to the A of our scared mnemonic and the A is for abuse. Now we've done an entire podcast on pediatric physical abuse. But sometimes we forget and we look at the X-ray as if it were some slam dunk x-ray rule based on any fracture that can be abused.
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