Anton Helman here from EMCases.

Now, before we get into the wild world of ocular trauma recorded live at the 2018 EMCases course in Toronto,

I thought I'd give you a little taste of what the participants and faculty learned at the conference in sort of a popery of audio bites.

Thanks so much to Dr. Barb Tatum and Michelle Yee for conducting these interviews at the course.

I learned about how it is safe and pretty simple to do an idea of the peritons or abscess in the emergency department and some little pearls that you can use,

such as using a safety guard for scalpel blade and for a needle driver to prevent going into the carotid artery

when you're doing a procedure. You don't necessarily need to refer them to E&T. You can do this in the

emerge and have them out of the door within an hour.

The external rotation of the ankle is like chest pain going to the back. You can't miss it.

I am Gotham Walia. I am a general practitioner working in the emergency department at Uxbridge Cottage

Hospital in Uxbridge. One of the take-home points that I took away from today's great session was about the

rise of thrombectomy in stroke.

So I work at a site where we refer out to our strokes to a regional stroke center

and been guided previously that patients outside of the

four to five hour window really don't benefit from referral to a stroke center.

So being able to review some of the latest studies that have come out about a month ago

have been quite helpful and will also be helpful for me when I'm talking to consultants,

the stroke physician on the other line in terms of trying to get a patient to the appropriate

disposition. So that's a big take-home point for me today. I think definitely more and more of

us are moving away from antibiotics in adult patients with culture-proven strepherangitis.

These days in developed countries, in urban centers, particularly, there's extremely, extremely

low risk of getting rheumatic fever. So the number needed to treat for rheumatic fever is crazy high.

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