Pain
Medicolegal Issues
Malpractice Counsel: A Pain in the…Scrotum
Commentary on a case involving a 52-year-old man with right scrotal pain and swelling.
Conference Coverage
Opioid management protocol lowered trauma patient pain medication use
A targeted pain management protocol for trauma patients addressed the problem of overprescribing of opioids.
Case Reports
Thyroid Cartilage Fracture in Context of Noncompetitive "Horseplay" Wrestling
An isolated thyroid cartilage fracture is very rare.1-5 More interestingly,...
Case Reports
Nontraumatic Disc Herniation as a Cause of Unusual Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
A 55-year-old previously healthy woman with an insignificant medical history presented...
From the Journals
U.S. opioid, heroin overdose deaths may be one-fifth higher than reported
New analysis suggests geographic disparities in accuracy of reporting opioid and heroin mortality.
News
Endo removes Opana ER from market
The move is in compliance with an FDA request citing a spike in abuse of the opioid agonist.
News from the FDA/CDC
‘Chronic Lyme’: Serious bacterial infections reported with unproven treatments
Five case reports illustrate the dangers of unproven treatments for so-called chronic Lyme disease.
Medicolegal Issues
Malpractice Counsel: Missed Eye Injury: The Importance of the Visual Examination
A 61-year-old woman presented to the ED for evaluation of left-side facial pain following a fall.
Conference Coverage
Postop pain may be a predictor for readmission
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