Safely Remove Helmet and Shoulderpads
I love football! Ok… I mean American Football for those of you outside the US… Not that I don’t like soccer, certainly. But back to the point: I love football! Now it is football season again and life is good.…
Category Orthopedic
Cervical Spine Injury and Submersion Injuries
I’m not sure if you have noticed, but the weather is starting to get a little warm. It almost makes you want to go swimming… and that brings to mind the second leading cause of accidental deaths in pediatric…
Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
We all studied a lot for boards (some of us more recently than others) and one topic that is routinely covered in both the Pediatric and the Emergency Medicine realms is SCFE. So, it would stand to reason that we…
Clavicle Fractures
In the US, we love to have Turkey on Thanksgiving… and on the next day (or maybe 2 days) we love to make a wish as we snap the poor turkey’s clavicles. In the ED, we encounter clavicle fractures all…
Nursemaid’s Elbow – feel like Mr. Miyagi
Nursemaid’s elbow: honestly, this may be the single most enjoyable condition to treat. Yes, we all do a lot of fantastic feats daily to help improve the health and well-being of children, but I would argue that few are as…
Supracondylar Fracture
It is August… a few weeks left before school starts… and football season is almost upon us! I love football season, but it is such a double-edged sword – inevitably all of the Peds EDs will be inundated with skeletally…
Upper Extremitiy Fractures – Lateral Condyle Fracture
After working this past week, I have a new found love/disdain for upper extremity fractures in kids – not sure how 5 kids coordinated their injuries to all arrive at the same time… but it gives me hope for…