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Articles by Aileen McCabe
Primary survey: highlights from this issue
Violence in the ED Having worked in EDs in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, I am fortunate to have never encountered a ‘mass violence event’ in real life. Looking across at the USA and Mexico, such events are unfortunately not rare. Magos-Vázquez et al describe 18 active shooter situations and 1 bomb threat in Guanajuato state public hospitals (located mostly in EDs) between 2018 and 2023.
Management of self-harm
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9462-5874Aileen McCabe1,2 1 Emergency Department, Tallaght University Hospital, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland 2 Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Correspondence to Dr Aileen McCabe, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, D24 NR0A, Ireland; aileen.mccabe{at}tuh.ie Statistics from Altmetric.com Request Permissions If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service.
Management of self-harm
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9462-5874Aileen McCabe1,2 1Emergency Department, Tallaght University Hospital, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland 2Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Correspondence to Dr Aileen McCabe, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, D24 NR0A, Ireland; aileen.mccabe{at}tuh.ie Statistics from Altmetric.com Request Permissions If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service.
Adult supraglottitis: a life-threatening disease and potential airway emergency
An 87-year-old woman was brought by ambulance to the emergency department (ED) with fever and dyspnoea. There was audible stridor, and the patient was noted to have a large left-sided submandibular swelling. She was in respiratory distress with a respiratory rate of 30. She was administered 100% oxygen. The on-call anaesthetics and ear, nose and throat (ENT) team were called emergently on arrival of the patient due to concern regarding possible impending airway compromise.
Use of emergency department point-of-care ultrasound in a case of cholecystitis
A 54-year-old man presented with severe right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain. He denied any infective symptoms. On clinical examination, he was afebrile and anicteric. His abdomen was soft with tenderness elicited on the RUQ. A point-of-care ultrasound in the emergency department demonstrated a distended gallbladder with a thickened wall and an impacted large gallstone at the neck of the gallbladder.
It's a cod! Finding Nemo (impacted fishbone) in the emergency department
A 23-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) with a sensation of a ‘fish bone’ stuck in her throat after eating cod. On physical examination, while she reported an uncomfortable sensation in her throat, no airway compromise was evident. Clinical examination, including ear, nose and throat (ENT) and oropharyngeal assessment, was unremarkable. A linear opacity consistent with a fishbone was visualised on a soft tissue lateral neck X-ray anterior to the vertebral body of C4–6.
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