Episode 65 – Acute Joint Pain
Jan 06, 2022
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Episode description
Interview with author: Rachel Sullivan, MD
- Why joint pain ?
- Differential Diagnosis
- Mono vs Poly Articular Presentation? Figure 1
- Infectious, degenerative, autoimmune, crystal deposition, reactive, traumatic
- Septic Arthritis-
- Bimodal incidence
- Risks
- Septic arthritis is polyarticular in 15% to 20% of cases, and in these cases, the mortality is high
- Gonococcal
- Highest risk
- Commonly affected joints
- Symptomatic or asymptomatic infection
- Lyme Arthritis
- Viral – Zika, chikungunya, human parvovirus B19, hepatitis
- Degenerative osteoarthritis
- Autoimmune
- Gout
- CPPD
- Prehospital
- ED History – table 2, table 4
- ED exam
- Labs – do we need them?
- Imaging
- Arthrocentesis – Table 5
- Treatment
- Special Populations
- Prostheses
- Immunocompromised
- HIV
- Clinical Pathway
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