A 64-year-old man has a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) while attending a hockey game. Bystander CPR is immediately started while an automatic external defibrillator (AED) is located. He is found to be in ventricular fibrillation and receives two defibrillation attempts with the AED. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrive and provide another defibrillation with their…
Pharaoh herself took up the sport because her parents played. As a family they were constantly at the green; she and her mum Chris won the national doubles championship. Indeed, Chris and Amy’s dad Bernard, are sitting on a bench watching their daughter in action. “She won the national under-25s competition when she was 12,”…
Injuries to the upper extremity (e.g., fractures, dislocations, lacerations, abscesses, and foreign bodies) are common, but can be challenging to manage in the emergency department (ED) due to severe pain.1 Procedural sedation and/or hematoma blocks can be great tools for pain control but, in our experience, often fail to provide adequate analgesia. While the use…