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As part of a commitment to standardize pain management, the Canadian Pain Task Force has developed a first-of-its-kind pediatric pain management guideline. System factors—including trauma and racism—will be recognized and addressed in order to deal with inequity in healthcare. Dr. Régis Vaillancourt...
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An article in the Cureus journal reports on a young, healthy man whose shoulder pain led to limb weakness and then bowel and bladder incontinence. Systemic examination unearthed nothing suspicious. An MRI showed spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma causing cord compression. The article states, “A...
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A traumatic injury is defined as one that occurs suddenly, with a degree of severity. If patients are given opioids by emergency medical services (EMS), how does it affect their later pain levels? Researchers, publishing in the Injury journal, identified over 3,800,000 injured patients via data from...
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More healthcare discrepancies—Black vs White and male vs female—are brought to light in a Journal of the American Heart Association Report. Researchers identified over 4100 records based on over 29 million chest pain visits by young adults. In terms of being evaluated by a physician, people of color...
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Pediatric pain assessment and management are frequently underestimated and undertreated. Therefore, those practitioners working in the emergency sector should be ready with strategies. An article in the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open provides suggestions for pain and...
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A retrospective cohort study of post colorectal surgery and trips to the emergency department (ED) is discussed in the journal of Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. In order to increase prevention of return ED visits—approximately 11% of patients—researchers characterized the factors that brought...
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A rose is a rose is a rose. And an emoji of a rose is even easier to “get.” There are over 3500 Unicode Standard emoji, including medical-specific ones such as a pill or a syringe. Newer added emoji include a stethoscope, microbe, and drop of blood. Authors of a JAMA commentary suggest even more...
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The journal Healthcare reports on a program called PATH—Practical Alternative to Hospitalization. Looking to assess its feasibility, the article evaluated hospital admissions from the emergency department (ED). Such admissions account for over 15% of health expenses in the United States. Because of...