Dr. Matthew Levine has a particular interest in the management of wound foreign bodies – an aspect of Emergency Medicine that can be particularly challenging and high risk for the patient and physician.

Dr. Levine has performed studies in a chicken leg model, training novices to detect tiny glass foreign bodies in wounds using low power portable fluoroscopy. The Hologic Company donated a state of the art fluoroscopy unit for these studies. Dr. Levine has also gathered a database of patients that presented to NMH and ENH from 2001-2004 that is the largest collection of Emergency Department wound foreign bodies reported to date. Dr. Levine has current manuscripts in progress and has presented his work at various conferences.

Levine MR, Yarnold PR, Michelson EA: A Training Program in Portable Fluoroscopy for the Detection of Glass in Soft Tissues. Acad Emerg Med 2002; 9:858-862.

Levine MR, Yarnold PR, Gorman S: Detection of glass foreign bodies using portable fluoroscopy. Poster presentation at Women’s Faculty Organization Research Day, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, March 4, 2004.

Levine MR, Gorman SM, Yarnold PR: Detection of glass foreign bodies with portable fluoroscopy. Poster presentation at Society of Academic Emergecy Medicine Midwest Regional Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, September 10, 2004.