Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Demographic and Clinical Predictors of Rib Fracture, Complication, and Follow-up Among Patients With Rib Injuries Presenting to Urgent Care

Urgent Message: This retrospective cross-sectional study found more than one-third of patients who presented to urgent care with rib injuries had rib fractures. Rib fracture was associated with male sex, older age, Spanish-speaking status, White race, and abnormal vital signs. Rebeka Sultana, MBBS; Kristin Breslin, MPH; Abigail Steiner, MS, MPH; Douglas B. Richardson, MAS; Lindsey E. Fish, MD Keywords: rib fracture; urgent care; chest wall trauma; pneumothorax; hemothorax; health disparities; logistic regression Research Supplemental Abstract …

Thoracic Pain After a Fall

A 51-year-old man presents to an urgent care center with sharp left thoracic pain that began suddenly after he fell after tripping on a banana peel that had been left on his kitchen floor. He has pain with breathing as well as with range of motion of the chest wall. He reports no head trauma, head or neck pain, fever, vomiting, or dizziness. View the image taken (Figure 1) and consider what your diagnosis would …

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