{"id":666,"date":"2014-03-24T14:15:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T19:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=666"},"modified":"2014-04-02T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T16:50:12","slug":"nurses-are-effective-at-treating-a-common-arm-injury-in-young-children-although-not-as-successful-as-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/nurses-are-effective-at-treating-a-common-arm-injury-in-young-children-although-not-as-successful-as-physicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses are effective at treating a common arm injury in young children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_668\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6022672648_c8de1ddbf9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-668\" class=\"size-full wp-image-668\" alt=\"(Credit: slgckgc, flickr.com)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6022672648_c8de1ddbf9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6022672648_c8de1ddbf9.jpg 500w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6022672648_c8de1ddbf9-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6022672648_c8de1ddbf9-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Credit: slgckgc, flickr.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2018Pulled elbow\u2019, or radial-head subluxation, is a common arm injury in children. It\u2019s easy to diagnose and quick to fix but children usually wait hours in the emergency department. Researchers performed an open, cluster-randomized controlled trial of 268 cases to determine whether triage nurses in the emergency department could fix the condition, thereby freeing up valuable resources. Although nurses were able to treat this common injury 85% of the time, physicians were more effective, with a 97% success rate. Authors argue that nurses could increase their success rate with more experience.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/early\/2014\/03\/24\/cmaj.131101.abstract?sid=21424942-3651-4a6b-8b80-5d474d99d92c\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a>\u00a0published in the <em>Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>March 24, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/webapps.srv.ualberta.ca\/search\/?type=advanced&amp;uid=true&amp;c=ahewko\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Lee Hewko<\/a>, Faculty of Medicine &amp; Dentistry, University of Alberta<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Pulled elbow\u2019, or radial-head subluxation, is a common arm injury in children. It\u2019s easy to diagnose and quick to fix but children usually wait hours in the emergency department. Researchers performed an open, cluster-randomized controlled trial of 268 cases to determine whether triage nurses in the emergency department could fix the condition, thereby freeing up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[180,869,51,53],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-alberta","tag-canada-en","tag-health","tag-medicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6022672648_c8de1ddbf9.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-aK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}