Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Practice Management

Abstracts in Urgent Care

Abstracts in Urgent Care – April 2021

Abstracts in Urgent Care – April 2021

Acetaminophen vs Ibuprofen in Children Optimizing Podcasts for Learning Dosing Ketorolac IV in Renal Colic Torus Distal Radius Fractures Avulsion Fractures of the Fifth Metatarsal Base COVID-19 and ECGs Long-Term Sequelae of COVID-19 COVID-19, Zinc, and Vitamin C Use of Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen for Fever and Pain in Young Children Take-home point: Acetaminophen and ibuprofen are both safe for short-term treatment of pain and fever in children under 2 years of age. Ibuprofen produces more …

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Abstracts in Urgent Care – March 2021

Abstracts in Urgent Care – March 2021

‘Seat Belt’ Signs Post MVA Pain Control in Corneal Abrasions Analgesia with Reduction of Shoulder Dislocation Can Early PT Help with Sciatica? How Vaping Compromises Breathing COVID-19 in the Country Pandemic Depression—A Real Thing? Avijit Barai, MBBS, MRCS, MSc (Critical Care), PgCertCPU, FRNZCUC Workup for “Seat Belt” Sign in Trauma Patients Take-home point: The presence of a “seat belt” sign has a high association with intraabdominal organ injury. Citation: Shreffler J, Smiley A, Schultz M, et …

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Abstracts in Urgent Care – February 2021

Septic Knee Joints in Adults Recurrent Cellulitis Analgesics and Risk for Fracture Nonunion Assessing for MACE with and without a Troponin IV Fluids in Headache Management COVID-19 and Telemedicine COVID-19: The Second Wave Dr Avijit Barai, MBBS, MRCS, MSc (Critical Care), PgCertCPU, FRNZCUC Diagnostic Dilemma: Septic Arthritis of Knee Joints in Adult Patients Key point: Synovial fluid white cell count and Gram stain are the most useful laboratory markers for septic arthritis. Clinical evaluation, synovial …

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Abstracts in Urgent Care: December, 2015

SEAN M. McNEELEY, MD Family Members Are Most Frequent Cause of Pertussis in Children Younger Than 1 Year Key point: Be sure to suggest adding a pertussis vaccine to tetanus whenever possible. Citation: Skoff TH, Kenyon C, Cocoros N, et al. Sources of infant pertussis infection in the United States. Pediatrics. 2015;136:636–641. Despite recent efforts to increase the number of U.S. adults whose immunizations are current, pertussis still is a frequent problem for children younger …

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Abstracts in Urgent Care: September, 2015

SEAN M. McNEELEY, MD Adverse Events Unlikely in Patients with Negative Findings on Cardiac Evaluation Key point: Adverse events in patients admitted with negative findings on cardiac evaluation are very infrequent. Citation: Weinstock MB, Weingart S, Orth F, et al. Risk for clinically relevant adverse cardiac events in patients with chest pain at hospital admission. JAMA Intern Med 2015;175:1207–1212. In this 5-year retrospective study of patients seen in an emergency department for symptoms potentially representing …

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