Ep 175 Emergency Orthopedics Differential: SCARED OF Mnemonic – When X-rays Lie
Emergency Medicine Cases
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How to Interpret X-Rays in Orthopedic Emergency
Dr. Ciel has made our emerge group really good at orthopedic injuries because he's such a great educator and because he's really developed a great relationship with our orthopedic surgeons and radiologists. If you see even the slightest amount of soft tissue swelling, just raise the index of suspicion. I've seen a few cases very limited, but where the quality of the x-ray, when it comes to the shoulder, we didn't have a perfect y-view or a perfect lateral view. That led someone who was working on a very busy shift to think maybe the humeral head was subluxed. But when we interrogate the quality of that image, you know that
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