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Ep 160 Geriatric Trauma 2 Rib Fractures, Pelvic Fractures, Prognostication, Elder Abuse, Discharge Planning

Emergency Medicine Cases

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How to Treat a Multiple Rib Fracture in an Emergency Department

Every rib that's broken increases your relative risk of death by about 20%. The more ribs, the more urgently they need to get out and come to a trauma center. What they will get at a trauma center is multimodal, multidisciplinary pain control. That might be epidurals, a pair of vertebral blocks, or even PCA.

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