Emergent Evaluation of Injuries to the Shoulder, Clavicle, and Humerus

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 739-763

  Malik, Sanjeev ^a   Chiampas, George ^a,b,c   Leonard, Heather ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bank of America Chicago Marathon   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acromioclavicular separation; Proximal humerus fractures; Shoulder dislocations; Shoulder emergencies

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ETOMIDATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; PROPOFOL; SEDATIVE AGENT; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ACROMIOCLAVICULAR DISLOCATION; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE TENDON RUPTURE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISLOCATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FRACTURE REDUCTION; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; HUMEROSCAPULAR PERIARTHRITIS; HUMERUS FRACTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PECTORALIS RUPTURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; RUPTURE; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; SHOULDER INJURY; SHOULDER PAIN; SHOULDER RADIOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; STERNOCLAVICULAR JOINT DISLOCATION; TENDINITIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; CLAVICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMERAL FRACTURES; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PROCEDURES; SHOULDER FRACTURES; THORACIC INJURIES; UNITED STATES;

CLAVICLE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SHOULDER FRACTURES; THORACIC INJURIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958173778     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2010.06.006     Document Type: Review

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