Ep 178 Hand Injuries – Pitfalls in Assessment and Management
Emergency Medicine Cases
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The Importance of Physical Examination in Hand Injuries
In the history, we should be thinking about the potential complications from the beginning. Mechanism, mechanism, mechanism is always important in all of these sorts of injuries. Indominance, what the patient's vocation and recreation are if they're a musician, etc. If someone has a complete tendon laceration, you'll often see there won't be the normal cascade to the hand. Feel is very important. We have to know where it hurts. These are also guide us because if someone's injured in a finger, like we shouldn't order a hand x-ray, we should order a finger x-ray. So where they hurt, guide us in terms of the test that
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