Month September 2018
Trauma Tribulation 340 256

Blunt Abdominal Trauma: Decision Making

A Q&A approach to the decision making in the emergency management of blunt abdominal trauma. Do you know when to go straight to the operating theatre, the CT scanner or to hold FAST... What if you suspect a coexistent pelvic fracture or traumatic brain injury?

EBM Gone Wild mountain 340

Death by elephant

You don’t want to experience a tusker in the bush at 6 in the morning. They’re large, dangerous creatures that can be quite aggressive. This study takes a look at 14 human fatalities in West Bengal between 2007 and 2010.…

EBM Gone Wild mountain 340

Brown recluse bites

Last October, a report of death by loxoscelism was reported in Annals. It’s a sad story about a previously healthy 3 year old girl who was bitten by a witnessed brown recluse in Tennessee. She went to a rural ED,…

EBM Gone Wild mountain 340

Ice vs chemical cold packs

Heat illness needs fast treatment, and to accomplish this many EMS agencies carry chemical cold packs. These are convenient in that they have long shelf lives, don’t require cold storage, and don’t leak or drip fluids. According to this article,…

Trauma Tribulation 340 256

Trauma! Abdominal Injuries

A Q&A overview of abdominal injuries resulting from major trauma. Can you recognise and manage the common and important abdominal organ injuries in the ED?

EBM Gone Wild snow 340

Afterdrop

Snow burial is often used experimentally to simulate avalanche burials. In this paper, they used snow burial to allow measurement of core temperature cooling and afterdrop. The authors were attempting to compare the afterdrop rate of patients who were immediately…

eponym LITFL 340

Lewis Conner

Lewis Atterbury Conner (1867-1950) was an American cardiologist. Conner sign (1926) - dull percussion R lower posterior lung field in pericardial effusion