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Emergency Care Updates
Emergency Care
Updates
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The @uOttawaMed PoCUS Infographic Project is a bilingual student-led initiative to highlight the key elements of a variety of scans, including important steps and findings.
Check out their great work!
https://emottawablog.com/2021/09/uottawa-pocus-infographic-project/
We’re delighted to have come in second place for the prestigious Africa #YoungInnovators4Health award.
This is a validation of our vision and commitment to empower the health workforce on the continent to soar to greater heights.
Gratitude to all partners! https://twitter.com/SpeakUpAfrica1/status/1438484727359492102
Congratulations to the first-ever winners of the Africa #YoungInnovators4Health Award :
@stConrad7
@DaktariOnline
@Doye_A_Doyen
Thank you for offering bold entrepreneurial approaches to supporting frontline #healthworkers!
Read the press release here: https://bit.ly/3tJtmX3
You can find helpful information about treating a child with Covid-19 in our Pediatric Covid-19 Fact Sheet. The TREKK website has multiple resources about Covid-19 and all of them can be found on our website.
Check out the Fact Sheet here |
http://ow.ly/7qjA50GaICJ
Q: What could explain this asymmetrical appearance of the pelvis?
ANSWER: https://bit.ly/2SIB8zD
#FOAMrad #FOAMed
#Ketofol is popular as procedural #sedation, and that mixture of #ketamine and #propofol is usually given in a single syringe, but @M_Lin advises using separate syringes for each drug. #FOAMed https://bit.ly/3gWfxzf
| Non-ischemic (high-flow) | Ischemic (low-flow) | |
| Physical Exam | Typically painless, not fully tumescent | Painful, fully tumescent with corpus cavernosa rigidity without involvement of corpus spongiosum and glans penis |
| Aetiology | High-flow priapism is extremely rare and most commonly associated with antecedent trauma including blunt trauma, or resulting from needle injury of the cavernosal artery. | Low-flow priapism is caused by impaired relaxation and/or paralysis of cavernosal smooth muscle and in sickle-cell disease |
| Management | NOT Emergency | Emergency |
A swallowed watch (button) battery can cause fatal perforation with mediastinitis if lodged in the oesophagus. The need to removed urgently under general anaesthesia makes this a ‘timely’ emergency.
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