Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 346
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 346 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
Q&A with Anne Creaton
One month to go until the Spring Seminar on Emergency Medicine, and here's our final Q&A. We've saved the biggest questions until last.
Q&A with Deon Strydom
A woman bleeding to death from an ectopic. No power. The hospital has burnt down. You have a foot pump, a cigarette lighter, and Deon Strydom.
Comms Lab: Breaking Bad News
Comms Lab 41: Breaking Bad News: The Hardest Conversation of All. The SPIKES framework and Dr Rob Buckman
Network Five: Toxicology
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 19 - Toxicology reviewing papers on chemical warfare agents, Clozapine and drug overdose in pregnancy.
Levetiracetam
Levetiracetam (keppra) is a drug used as an anticonvulsant as monotherapy, or an adjunct, and as a Tier 2 agent in status epilepticus.
Desmopressin (DDAVP)
Desmopressin (DDAVP) is a drug used primarily for diabetes insipidus, haemophilia type A, and von Willebrand's disease.
Q&A with Shannon Baso
What's the best antidote to a hangover? Is 3-strikes-and-you're out fair? Why go peripheral? And how do you get a Gold Medal?
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 345
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 345 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
Q&A with Warren Adie
Touching a nerve on tribalism, the doughnut sign, life in Alice, gravel rash, beanies and cossack dancing... in pumps.
Monkeypox
Viral zoonotic infection, monkeypox causes a rash similar to chickenpox. Symptomatic infection involves a febrile illness and evolving rash lasting 2-4 weeks
Second disease
Scarlet fever (second disease) is a bacterial illness (GABHS) that often presents as diffuse erythematous rash in the setting of a sore throat (streptococcal pharyngitis)