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Contraceptive Counseling For Adolescents In The Emergency Department: A Novel Curriculum For Nurse Practitioners And Physician Assistants., Laurel S. Gabler, Michelle Shankar, Tara Ketterer, Jennifer Molnar, Amber Adams, Jungwon Min, Elizabeth Miller, Romina Barral, Aletha Akers, Melissa K. Miller, Cynthia Mollen
Contraceptive Counseling For Adolescents In The Emergency Department: A Novel Curriculum For Nurse Practitioners And Physician Assistants., Laurel S. Gabler, Michelle Shankar, Tara Ketterer, Jennifer Molnar, Amber Adams, Jungwon Min, Elizabeth Miller, Romina Barral, Aletha Akers, Melissa K. Miller, Cynthia Mollen
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Many adolescents use the emergency department (ED) as their primary source of health care. As a result, the ED serves as a unique opportunity to reach adolescents. Although many adolescent visits to the ED are related to reproductive health, ED providers report barriers to providing this care, including lack of training. Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) serve a vital role in the provision of consistent care to adolescents in the ED. The purpose of this study was to create a curriculum to train NPs and PAs at two pediatric institutions to provide patient-centered contraceptive counseling to adolescents in …
Case Report: Uterine Torsion – A Rare Cause Of Right Lower Quadrant Pain, David Ho, James Jung Lee, James Espinosa
Case Report: Uterine Torsion – A Rare Cause Of Right Lower Quadrant Pain, David Ho, James Jung Lee, James Espinosa
Rowan-Virtua Research Day
Uterine torsions are very rare. In an article by Matsumoto et al published in 2021, only 25 cases have been documented on PubMed in non-gravid females in the past 20 years. Uterine torsion is defined as rotation of the uterus greater than 45 degrees in the long axis. Rotation can occur anywhere between 45 degrees to 180 degrees. The torsion can be due to a congenital anomaly or an obstetrics emergency such as with an ovarian torsion. Uterine torsions presenting as an obstetrics emergency carries the potential for irreversible ischemic damage to the uterus, and just as in ovarian torsion, …