Video Documentation as a Measure of Written Documentation Accuracy in Emergency Medical Service Field Intubations.

Introduction: Quality improvement (QI) is a major focus of all departments and fields of health care, including emergency medical services. The chaotic and rapidly evolving atmosphere in which paramedics must practice can lead to inconsistency between what is documented and the actual events. This leads to difficulty when trying to evaluate the practitioners and when implementing a QI program.

A patient with lower extremity weakness after recent endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Background: Thrombosis of an endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) is a devastating complication of a common surgical procedure that can lead to serious morbidity and mortality if not promptly recognized. This is the first case report of an EVAR graft thrombosis in the emergency medicine literature.

Case Report: We present a case of a patient with lower extremity paraplegia secondary to thrombosis of an EVAR graft who presented to the emergency room with acute stroke-like symptoms after a recent EVAR procedure.