Crippen’s Law
Will dual trainees in emergency medicine and intensive care always succumb to Crippen's Law?
Month April 2019
Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine
Applying the principles learned in Palliative Care to every-day Emergency Medicine practice with Prof Ian Rogers
The Broken Doctors Hotel
After a particularly bad winter, with trolley bound patients waiting hours for a bed and colleagues calling in sick as they became increasingly physically and mentally run down…I close my eyes and dream of a new life running a bar, restaurant…
François Chaussier
François Chaussier (1746-1828) was a French anatomist and physician. He proposed the use of oxygen in pediatric resus (1781) and the laryngeal intubation (1806)
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 224
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 224 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Arsenic Poisoning
Arsenic is often used as a rat poison; it causes glove and stocking paraesthesia, scaly skin and garlic breath. I thought it was fun drawing a sexy rat with garlic breath...
Tetanus Immunoglobulin
Indications and Role: The tetanus immunoglobulin is used for those wounds that are tetanus prone and high risk as vaccination alone may not provide enough protection if the incubation period is faster than the host’s own immune response. Administration and…
ECG Case 113
65 year old male who was brought to the Emergency Department following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Describe and interpret this ECG. LITFL Top 100 ECG
ECG Case 112
35 yr old male who presented to the Emergency Department complaining of palpitations, dyspnoea, and lightheadedness. Describe and interpret this ECG. LITFL Top 100 ECG
A New Threat Tied in to Intensive Care
Environmental selection pressures are a driving force behind adaptive processes in organisms. For instance, drug misuse is commonly blamed for the rise of multi-resistant drugs and the disposal of large amounts of nylon in India giving rise to nylonase enzymes.…
Refetoff Syndrome
Description Refetoff Syndrome: Thyroid hormone resistance is a rare syndrome in which thyroid hormone levels are elevated but the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level is not suppressed (or not completely suppressed as would be expected). History 1967 – first report…
Australian Anaphylaxis Amplification
Anaphylaxis is increasingly common. The patient population death rate for anaphylaxis is Australia in 2013 was over double that reported in the UK