Zipper injuries are not only seen in There's Something About Mary.  Learn how to approach and treat them.

Facial trauma is a common emergency medicine complaint.  Learn the basics on facial anatomy and how to approach a patient with facial trauma. 

This post is not intended to be a comprehensive review of skull fracture types and management, but rather a discussion of two subtypes of skull fracture – open and depressed fractures.  I chose this topic because it’s something I saw frequently during my recent elective working in an emergency department in Kumasi, Ghana.  In the United States at trauma centers these patients are frequently managed immediately by neurosurgery; however, with few consultants available, I was able to be more involved in the prolonged care of these patients. If faced with these types of severe head/skull injuries in a community hospital, it is important to feel comfortable with the initial management.  

Using basic terminology, you should be able to describe any fracture to your consults without embarrassing yourself.  Here is your 3 minute review.

Tranexamic Acid! It seems everywhere we look there are people touting TXA as the next miracle drug. This post introduces the clinical applications of TXA and the evidence supporting its use.

Snow day for the Cooper EM Residents! Instead of today's conference pearls we finish out our trauma/orthopedic module from January with a high yield summary of clinically useful hand pearls from our awesome new hand surgeon Dr. Nicole Jarrett's lecture!

Do you sound like a first year medical student when discussing hand injuries by phone with consultants? Forget all the tendon anatomy you crammed for in anatomy? FDP? FDS? FPL? Then check out this post for a "Back to Basics" online hand exam lecture by Dr. Fred Heckler from UPMC.

• A high yield review of clinical pearls from the Cooper EM Residency Weekly conference! This month's module is Ortho/Trauma, led by Dr. Andrew Nyce and Dr. Richard Byrne