Though less common locally than in some areas, tick bites pre and post removal do offer some concern to patients.
Working out what your patient might have been vaccinated for can be tricky, and more so if they were raised outside of the UK. Luckily there are a couple of tools online you can use to make this easier.
Measuring for and advising patients on the use of elbow crutches is an important skill for ED staff.
Mallet Deformity is an inability to maintain extension of the distal phalanx of the finger at the distal intraphalangeal joint.
Neck of fifth Metacarpal (Boxer’s) fractures are a common injury, and how we treat them locally is changing.
We are regularly doing blocks next to major vessels. So warn the patient of the symptoms, & keep them monitored(at least 15 min).
Symptoms of local anaesthetic toxicity
Use conventional therapies to treat:
PDF: Quick Reference Handbook – Guidelines for crises in anaesthesia
C-spine injury ranges from the obvious fracture-dislocation to the less obvious ligamentous injury, affecting about 2.5% of blunt trauma patients. However, ALL of them are serious and can lead to life changing injuries, that we obviously don’t want to miss. Unfortunately reported miss rates range from 4-30%. [IJO 2007]
