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Back to Basics: Treatment of Acute Low Back Pain in the ED
How do you treat acute low back pain that comes into the ED. Do you have a ‘cocktail’? Do you have any injections / stretching that you recommend? Is there data behind any of that?? Join Dr. Gillespie on an evidence-based look at the therapeutics of low back pain in the ED.
Swelling out of the Blue - Angioedema in the ED
Angioedema is like urticaria in that both are transient swelling of well-demarcated areas. However, angioedema involves swelling of deeper tissues, producing nonpitting edema of the dermis and subcutaneous layers. It is most often seen in the eyelids and lips, and sometimes in the mouth and throat. While it is not pruritic it may be painful. In the US, angioedema accounts for approximately 100,000 ER visits annually (1). Across the world, 35% of prescriptions written for hypertension are for ACE-inhibitors (>40 million people). With a reported incidence of angioedema in 0.1–0.7% of those patients on ACEI, there are approximately 40,000 cases of ACEI-associated angioedema worldwide annually (2).
Diagnostics: Elevated Intraocular Pressure
Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) is a common finding among eye complaints in the ED. Dr. Melanie Yates reviews what we can do in the emergent setting to reduce the IOP with topical and systemic medications and potentially save vision.