“Ear Complaints” … Case Conclusion July 7, 2010
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The Diagnosis Is…
After performing a ring block around the ear, you first repaired the cartilage and then repaired the skin, making sure to pay close attention to the folds of the ear. Tomorrow, when your patient sobers up, you’re sure he’ll appreciate your attention to aesthetics.
Congratulations to Dr. AbuZuiter, Dr. Falcigno, Dr. Nasrallah, Dr. Shafiq, and Dr. Verbeek — this week’s winners of Emergency Medicine Practice’s “Evaluation And Treatment Of Common Ear Complaints In The Emergency Department”! For an evidence-based review of ear-relaed pain (otalgia), hearing loss, tinnitus, and ear-related trauma, read the July 2010 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice, “Evaluation And Treatment Of Common Ear Complaints In The Emergency Department.”
Ear Repair… July 1, 2010
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You are moonlighting in a small community ED with no in-house support. The EMS team arrives with your next patient who has been in a bar fight. He is intoxicated and bleeding through the gauze wrapped around his head. When you remove the gauze to examine the wound to his ear, you find that he has sustained a 5-cm laceration through the pinna. You wish you were back in the city where you could call facial plastics to repair this, but here in this ED you are on your own.
How will you approach this repair?
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