Conference Coverage

How to manage difficult dislocations


 

REPORTING FROM ACEP18

– Being prepared to manage difficult dislocations is key to maintaining the flow of patient care in any emergency department.

In a video interview at the annual meeting of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Danielle D. Campagne, MD, FACEP, shared her clinical pearls for managing dislocations of the jaw, hip, ankle, and shoulder.

Dr. Campagne is an emergency medicine physician who practices at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, Calif. She is also vice chief of emergency medicine at University of California, San Francisco, Fresno. She reported having no financial disclosures.

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