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Symptoms Of Tear - Articles
Can You Have a Rotator Cuff Tear and No Symptoms?
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Mike Reinold
Posted
Mon 08 Apr 2013 6:20am
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Over the years, our knowledge and ability to treat rotator cuff tears have really advanced significantly. This includes advances in surgical technique, rehabilitation processes, and even training modifications. photo from Wikipedia
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Trick of the Trade: Steristrip-suture combo for thin skin lacerations
by
Michelle Lin
Posted
Wed 30 Mar 2011 12:00am
Lacerations of elderly patients or chronic corticosteroid users can be a challenge because they often have very thin skin. Sutures can tear through the fragile skin. Tissue adhesives may not adequately close the typically irregularly-edged laceration.
How do you repair these lacerations?
Do you just slap a band-aid on it?
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Trick of the Trade: Finger nailbed laceration repair
by
Michelle Lin
Posted
Wed 06 Jan 2010 12:00am
Over the years, I have been frustrated by how inelegant finger nailbed closure is. Nailbed lacerations are often sustained by a major crush injury, resulting in a stellate and irregular laceration pattern. This typically also requires the crushed fingernail to be removed. Cosmesis is never ideal because pieces of the nailbed are often missing, ...
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Hand lacerations important health risk in commercial fishermen
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Annet Lenderink
Posted
Wed 06 Jan 2010 10:09am
In this study 210 fishermen were interviewed. Over their careers, 56 subjects (27%) had been returned to shore as an emergency for medical reasons. Most emergency evacuations were for acute injuries, and only 5 were for illness. Fifty-five fishermen had suffered injuries in the past year, including 12 that had caused loss of more than 3 day ...
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Trick of the trade: Irrigating scalp lacerations
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Michelle Lin
Posted
Wed 27 Jan 2010 12:00am
Thanks to my new-found Emergency Medicine friend in Turkey, Dr. John Fowler has some useful tips about scalp lacerations.
Often patients with scalp lacerations have clotted blood in their hair. While we can irrigate the wound itself (and unavoidably soaking the patient in cold irrigation fluid), a lot of blood remains stuck in their hair. I ...
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Trick of the Trade: Hemostasis of finger laceration
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Michelle Lin
Posted
Wed 24 Nov 2010 12:00am
Lacerations of the finger can bleed quite profusely because of digital vascularity. This obscures the provider's ability to perform a careful exam and can make suturing quite difficult. Simple direct pressure over the laceration often controls the bleeding.
What if this doesn't work?
Trick of the Trade:
Glove tourniquet "ring ...
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Trick of the Trade: Tie-over dressing for scalp lacerations
by
Michelle Lin
Posted
Tue 20 Dec 2011 12:00am
Scalp lacerations are apparently a hot topic these days. This is the third post now on how to apply a bandage to a scalp laceration.
Beanie hat using tubular gauze
Hair braid dressing
Trick of the Trade:
Tie-over dressing technique
After suturing a laceration in place, leave the suture tails 6-8 c ...
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Trick of the Trade: Bandaging the scalp laceration
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Michelle Lin
Posted
Mon 05 Dec 2011 12:00am
Scalp lacerations are one of the most common injuries which present to the Emergency Department. Applying a dry bandage over the staples or sutures can be a challenge because the tape just has nothing to adhere to.
We reviewed the use of tubular cotton gauze to create a beanie hat , but what should you do if you can't find any tub ...
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Deep lacerations, inflicted in the blink of an eye
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Thomas S.
Posted
Fri 20 Apr 2012 5:00am
One of the favourite topics in our museum discussions is ‘presence effects’, i.e., how close encounters with museum objects can convey other (and often deeper) kinds of experiences than those you get from reading a book or hearing a talk (see, e.g., Ken Arnold’s and my article in a recent issue of the journal Isis).
Alistair Kwan, Assistant ...
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