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Introduction: Shoulder dislocations comprise approximately half of all major joint dislocations evaluated in the emergency department. Despite often being considered a simple injury, diagnosing a dislocation can be difficult, especially when accompanied by a fracture associated with unusual mechanism, or when the physical examination is limited. Missed and de...

Introduction: Electrical storm is an emergent medical condition in which a patient experiences recurrent episodes of ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation. Traditional management includes intravenous antiarrhythmics and/or electrical cardioversion. However, in some cases, cardiac arrhythmias may persist despite these interventions. In rare circu...

Case Presentation: A 26-year-old man with past medical history of prolactinoma presented two weeks status post endoscopic transsphenoid prolactinoma excision with a positional headache and cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea; he was found to have diffuse subarachnoid air.

Discussion: There are few reports of subarachnoid pneumocephalus in t...

Introduction: Luxatio erecta is a rare glenohumeral dislocation. The standard treatment is reduction under procedural sedation; however, decision-making becomes more nuanced in patients with comorbidities. This report describes a hyperglycemic patient with type 1 diabetes with luxatio erecta.

Case Report: An 18-year-old man resented wi...

Introduction: Vertebral augmentation procedures, including vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty, can result in cement extravasation, which is often clinically silent. Less commonly, cement may migrate intravascularly into the inferior vena cava (IVC) and pulmonary arterial circulation, resulting in pulmonary cement embolism, a potentially life-threatening complicat...