Shoulder Reduction Without Anesthesia
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To the Editor:
Although the issue of shoulder reduction may be overdiscussed in the emergency medicine literature, we risk yet another comment. The recent report by Doyle and Ragar of shoulder reduction in the supine position with the scapular rotation method [January 1996; 27: 92-94] is of particular interest because it was successful without analgesia or sedation. Although the case involved extenuating circumstances and the authors might have preferred to administer analgesics, the report does demonstrate
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