Ankle Injuries in Urgent Care: The Ottawa Ankle Rules and What Comes Next
It’s a classic urgent care shift.
Posts about Urgent Care
Sports Physicals & Sudden Cardiac Death: What Are We Screening For?
We’ve all seen the headline: a student athlete collapses on the field. It’s terrifying every time, and even more unsettling because these are often kids who seemed completely healthy moments before. Stories like these stay with us. They should also remind us why preparticipation screening matters. But on a busy day in clinic when there’s a sports form in front of us, it’s worth the reminder: what are we actually screening for?
The Hidden Stress of Urgent Care: We Get It
You know the feeling: the clinic is about to close, you're exhausted and hungry, and the patient in front of you looks 'mostly' fine. This is the real job: making high-stakes calls when resources are stripped down; no telemetry, no CT, just you and your gut.
Pediatric Procedural Sedation: Practical Pearls for Keeping Kids Safe, Calm, and Still
Few situations in pediatric emergency medicine require as much preparation, adaptability, and situational awareness as procedural sedation.
Let’s Talk About the Frozen Shoulder
It’s the middle of a busy shift when you walk into the room and find your patient cradling their shoulder, equal parts uncomfortable and frustrated. There’s no trauma, no clear inciting event, just a story that starts with mild pain a few weeks ago and has quietly progressed to the point where they can’t reach overhead, can’t get dressed without help, and can’t quite understand what went wrong. You run through the usual differential —...
Hemorrhoid Help in Urgent Care: What to Recommend When Your Patient Can’t Sit Comfortably
We’ve all been there. A patient shifts uncomfortably on the exam table, hesitating before admitting what brought them in: “I think I have…hemorrhoids.”
