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Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Anterior Cord Syndrome -> Anterior spinal artery
Pathogenesis and clinical findings ... Syndrome ->Cord ... #Syndromes #diagnosis ... pathophysiology #signs ... #symptoms #msk
What is a Boxer’s fracture?? Fracture of the 4th or 5th metacarpal neck
 - Common in
– compartment syndrome ... Management: - ... Overlying wounds or signs ... recommended if injury ... Hand #Metacarpal #Diagnosis
Evaluation of Electrical Injury in the Emergency Department 

Common Injuries by System:

CNS - Seizure, coma, spinal
, coma, spinal cord ... ED arrival MSK ... - Fractures, dislocations ... compartment syndrome ... #Management #Emergency
Lesions of the Spinal cord - Spinal Cord Syndromes

Spinal cord lesions can result in permanent neurologic
- Spinal Cord Syndromes ... result in permanent neurologic ... Vertebral burst fracture ... #differential #diagnosis ... #neurology
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
- Differential Diagnosis ... • Symptoms and signs ... compression by fractured ... MCTD, Sjogren syndrome ... #neurology #differential
Supracondylar Elbow Fracture
• Most common elbow fracture in children, peak age 5-7 
• When looking at
anterior sail sign ... brachial artery injury ... ), compartment syndrome ... Radiology #XRay #Diagnosis ... #MSK
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
• Or brainstem syndromes ... Radiographic findings ... Laboratory findings ... (Spinal cord predominant ... #management #neurology
Orthopedic Emergencies
Compartment Syndrome
 • An increase in compartment pressure to the point where tissue perfusion is
after an acute injury ... • Diagnosis: ... loss of spinal cord ... level of spinal cord ... injury, characterised
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
Presentation: Injury ... compression (MRI) and findings ... • Bilateral signs ... negative, MOG-IgG test ... #management #neurology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
to local skin injury ... ) • Neurologic ... matter, spinal cord ... #diagnosis #management ... #signs #symptoms