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Articles Tagged With: trauma

  • Pain Control in Older Adults

    Many older adults experience pain, but there are limited guidelines to appropriately manage their pain. Additionally, assessment of pain control in older adult patients can be difficult because of impairments in cognition, hearing, and sight. Increasingly, acute care providers are challenged to manage pain in this unique population. This article will discuss the epidemiology and etiology of pain in the older adult population, the pathophysiology, tools for diagnosing pain in older adults with cognitive impairment, and appropriate multimodal pain management for older adult patients.

  • Evaluation and Management of Neck Trauma

    The neck is a complex region that may have injuries that range from minor to life-threatening. An understanding of the anatomy and potential injuries is essential to optimize patient care and outcomes.

  • Major Orthopedic Trauma

    Major orthopedic trauma is a common issue for the emergency medicine provider. Being able to make a timely diagnosis and optimize care improves patient outcomes.

  • Undiagnosed Diseases Are Common Among Young Trauma Patients

    There is a largely untapped opportunity for health systems to identify young adults with chronic diseases before they end up hospitalized for their illness. Trauma, such as car crashes, falls, assaults, and gunshot wounds, can be the entry point to the healthcare system, according to researchers.

  • Anticoagulated Trauma Patient

    Emergency medicine providers commonly encounter anticoagulated trauma patients, and it is essential to understand the critical aspects of caring for this unique subpopulation, including specific traumatic injury patterns, emergent reversal, and surgical considerations, as well as relevant emerging concepts.

  • Consider the Burden for Those Caring for Older Trauma Patients

    Family caregivers of older people who have experienced a serious fall or another traumatic event sometimes are unprepared for the role. The authors of a recent study found close to one-third of family caregivers of older trauma patients experience high caregiver burden up to three months after the patient’s discharge.

  • Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock

    This issue will review the management of traumatic hemorrhage in the emergency department, highlighting prehospital care, recognition of hemorrhagic shock, initial resuscitative measures, massive hemorrhage protocol, reversal agents, and technological advancements in medical and mechanical support for traumatic hemorrhage.

  • Pediatric Chest Trauma

    Pediatric thoracic trauma is the second highest cause of pediatric trauma mortality. It is critical for emergency care providers to be aware of the anatomic and physiologic differences in children, which result in significantly different injury patterns than adults. The authors highlight the essential steps for diagnosis and management of pediatric thoracic injuries.

  • How Case Managers Can Help Victims of Trafficking

    Case managers can learn skills and tactics for helping patients who have been trafficked. For example, investigators used an online training module to educate ED staff about human trafficking. Participants reported more confidence in identifying a possible human trafficking victim, noting they were more likely to screen patients for human trafficking.

  • The Face of the ED Boarding Crisis Is a Child’s

    The boy was 9 years old, wearing makeshift operating room garb that included cut-off paper scrubs. His parents did not want him. The Department of Social Services said there was nowhere to place him. His last four “homes” had been EDs, including one that kept him for months. Given such tragic incidents, ACEP and the Emergency Nurses Association are aggressively lobbying Congress to address the situation. They gathered on Capitol Hill to underscore the crisis and push for passage of the Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act.