Atraumatic Joint Pain
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Today, we'll be discussing the patient presenting with atraumatic joint pain and the many differentials that come along with that. We'll also be answering all the questions everyone submitted at the end of the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's say you're working in an urgent care and you just signed up for your next patient. |
| 0:03.9 | It's a 42 year old man with no past medical history. The triage note says he's here for right knee pain, |
| 0:10.2 | denies trauma. Your mind becomes flooded with a list of things that it could be, the most common things, the most dangerous things. |
| 0:18.0 | You know that joint pain comes in a variety of different flavors. This particular guy you notice is being transferred to |
| 0:24.0 | the exam room in a wheelchair holding his right knee looks very uncomfortable. |
| 0:28.4 | As he's wheeled past you in the hall you notice his knee is swollen and red. |
| 0:32.1 | You say to yourself, okay, time to bring your A game and figure this out. |
| 0:37.2 | Today, we discuss non-traumatic joint pain. What is up guys? We are back for another episode of the med geeks podcast. My name is |
| 1:00.4 | Eric. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:03.0 | Today we're going to be talking about a traumatic joint pain. |
| 1:06.2 | That's right, people with joint pain and they don't have any recent history of trauma. |
| 1:10.9 | Quick reminder before we get started here with this show. |
| 1:14.0 | Check out ask med geeks.com. |
| 1:16.0 | That's our website where you can go to submit a question. |
| 1:18.0 | Be specific as possible and we are going to answer those questions |
| 1:22.0 | here on the podcast. I've got a few answers to those |
| 1:24.8 | questions that we're going to do later in the show but first we're going to get into |
| 1:28.4 | our topic. This is a complaint that everyone sees all the time whether your primary care, urgent care, emergency, or just walking around in life, people are there with joint pain all the time. |
| 1:38.5 | And there's really a lot of list, a long list of reasons why you can have joint pain. We are going to focus on a couple today. |
| 1:46.7 | I'm going to go ahead and list the full list of diagnoses out that you have to consider, |
| 1:51.1 | but we're really going to focus on septic arthritis and we're going to focus on gout. |
| 1:55.1 | So those are the two big ones. |
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