Priapism: what every non-urologist should know about?

Abstract

Priapism is an emergency that requires immediate treatment and should be managed by every doctor who works in an emergency room. emergency medicine clinicians may be the first-line providers and should be capable of applying the initial management of priapism. Those providing emergency medical care in low-resource areas should know how to utilize interdisciplinary collaboration with urologists and be familiar with techniques of aspiration, irrigation, phenylephrine injections, and T shunts.