Association of Race/Ethnicity and Other Demographic Characteristics With Use of Physical Restraints in the Emergency Department.

This cross-sectional study assesses the association of race/ethnicity and other demographic factors with risk of receiving physical restraint during an emergency department (ED) visit.

Small Rare Earth Magnets Adhered to Pharyngeal Tissue in a Pediatric Emergency Department Patient.

Background: Small rare earth magnets pose a known health risk to children and many cases of ingestion and aspiration with associated complications have been described. More unusual, but also seen in children, are retained foreign bodies in the oropharynx that require extraction.

Case Report: We present the case of a 3-year-old boy with persistent left-sided sore throat 1 h after ingestion of several 3-mm spherical rare earth magnets.

A Comprehensive Update on the Treatment and Management of Postdural Puncture Headache.

Purpose Of Review: The purpose of this manuscript is to provide a comprehensive review of postdural puncture headache (PDPH) with a focus on epidemiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and prophylaxis.

Recent Findings: PDPH is an adverse iatrogenic complication of neuraxial anesthesia that occurs following inadvertent puncture of the dura after epidural or spinal anesthesia. The overall incidence of PDPH after neuraxial procedures varies from 6 to 36%.

Socioeconomic disparities in the utilization of spine augmentation for patients with osteoporotic fractures: an analysis of National Inpatient Sample from 2011 to 2015.

Background Content: Vertebral augmentation procedures are used for treatment of osteoporotic compression fractures. Prior studies have reported disparities in the treatment of patients with osteoporotic vertebral fractures, particularly with regards to the use of vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to report updates in racial and health insurance inequalities of spine augmentation procedures in patients with osteoporotic fractures.

Electronic Medical Records in low to middle income countries: The case of Khayelitsha Hospital, South Africa.

Introduction: Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) have shown benefit for clinical, organisational, and societal outcomes. In low-to-middle-income countries, the desire for EMRs will continue to rise as increasing trauma and infectious disease rates necessitate adequate record keeping for effective follow-up. 114 nations are currently working on national EMRs, with some using both a full EMR (Clinicom) and a paper-based system scanned to an online Enterprise Content Management (ECM) database.