People often present to an emergency room, or urgent care setting with a foreign body lodged in an orifice. When the patient presents they will have a sense of urgency, and feel that it needs to “come out now”. This may or may not be the case. In order of most to least common, non-traumatic foreign bodies can become lodged in the throat, ears, nose, vagina, rectum and urethra. Patients may be adult or pediatric. Kids will often stick beads or buttons in their ears or nose, and will swallow just about anything. Adults may have an insect in their ear, esophageal food impaction, or engage in foreign body insertions during sexual practices. In this blog we will talk about HEENT/Esophageal foreign bodies.
How to Read an EKG
Taking the Mystery out of the Squiggly Lines Scott Biggs, PA-C Today we are going to dive in to one of the topics that seems to intimidate people more than just about anything else in medicine – how to read an EKG. This skill is often causes fear and confusion. I assure you that it isn’t …
