For small-to-medium sized full-thickness rotator cuff tears, long-term physiotherapy with optional secondary surgical repair was found to be superior to primary surgical repair at 15-year follow up.
For acute traumatic pain management in the Emergency Department, methoxyflurane can significantly reduce pain scores with pain relief occurring within 10-30 minutes.
New dementia diagnoses are more likely to occur in older adults who sustain falls versus those who sustain other mechanisms of injury.
Which one of the following statements about CT scanning for head injury is false?
A 25-year-old female burnt her left arm and hand while pouring soup out of a pot. Upon examining the patient, you note that the burn involves the epidermis and some parts of the dermis. The burn has blisters and a moist appearance that blanches with pressure.
The supraclavicular approach to subclavian vein catheterization is advantageous relative to the infraclavicular approach in terms of operation duration and success rate.
Advising patients under 25 years of age diagnosed with a concussion to abstain from screen time for 48 hours after injury may shorten the duration of concussion symptoms.
Proper preservation of amputated parts consists of wrapping the part in saline soaked gauze inside a watertight bag and placing it on ice.