Minor Emergencies

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Presentation The patient may have stepped on a nail or sustained any sort of laceration, abrasion, or puncture wound when the question of tetanus prophylaxis arises. You’re Reading a Preview Become a Clinical Tree membership for Full access and enjoy…

Presentation A possibly contagious animal has bitten the patient, or the animal’s saliva has contaminated an abrasion or mucous membrane. There may have only been a questionable exposure to a bat, but the nature of the contact (if there was…

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Presentation Patients generally seek medical care when a wart has become painful, partially avulsed, cosmetically unacceptable, or otherwise annoying. Common warts usually appear as one or more dome-shaped hyperkeratotic verrucous papules on the hands but may occur anywhere on the…