Awaiting the Chop
Feeble sunlight trickled through the dew-drenched windows. The patients were finishing their breakfasts. The medical student wiped the sleep from his eyes and followed the team into the next room.
Month April 2019
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 222
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 222 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Diphtheria Vaccine
The vaccine is made from a cell-free purified toxin extracted from a strain of C. diphtheriae and treated with formaldehyde which converts it into a diphtheria toxoid. These are NOT live vaccines and can not cause the diphtheria.
Jack Dee nomination for F.UCEM
Excitement is building as post-prandial somnolence evolves into austere reverence as the Utopian College Council start the protracted process of sobering up in time to announce the inaugural New Years Day Honours list. This year 50 new individuals will be officially…
ECG Case 110
This ECG is from a middle aged female with a history of cardiac failure. Describe and interpret this ECG. LITFL Top 100 ECG
Ultrasound Case 087
A 28 year old with reduced GCS after several seizures requires intubation. Their neck extension seems limited and you wonder whether this may be a difficult intubation. You decide to monitor it with ultrasound.
Those we carry
Those we carry: "All of us have our own burdens, names chiselled on our hearts. We carry their bodies in silence. We carry them alone, refusing to cry. We hold them close, and keep the living at arm’s length."
A Problem with Plumbing
The plumbing problem is this: a man has a urinary catheter in situ, it won't come out. What are you going to do about it?
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 221
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 221 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Thomas Morgan Rotch
Thomas Morgan Rotch (1849-1914) was an American pediatrician. Rotch sign in pericardial effusion (1878) and Rotch pediatric incubator (1893)
Introducing: Resuscitology
Resuscitology - the art and science of saving lives - is a two-day residential course for resuscitationists in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
Ralph M. Waters
Biography Medical Eponyms Waters To-and-Fro Carbon Dioxide Absorption Canister (1923) Guedel-Waters Cuffed intratracheal tube (1928) The catheter effectively prevents all air leaks and renders the respiratory system entirely closed, with a controllable to and fro respiratory exchange. Aspiration of foreign…