{"pk":18122,"title":"Tattoos and Piercing: A Review for the Emergency Department Physician","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Tattoos and piercings are increasingly part of everyday life for large sections of the population, and more emergency physicians are seeing these body modifications (BM) adorn their patients. In this review we elucidate the most common forms of these BMs, we describe how they may affect both the physical and psychological health of the patient undergoing treatment, and also try to educate around any potential pitfalls in treating associated complications. [West J Emerg Med. 2011;12(4):393–398.]","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Tatoo"},{"word":"piercing"},{"word":"pocketing"},{"word":"complications"},{"word":"Emergency Medicine"},{"word":"body modification"}],"section":"Clinical Practice","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7k87770k","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Urdang","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jennifer","middle_name":"T","last_name":"Mallek","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California","department":"None"},{"first_name":"William","middle_name":"K.","last_name":"Mallon","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2011-03-28T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2011-03-28T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2011-05-27T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/18122/galley/9239/download/"}]}