Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 219
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 219 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind The medical trivia Christmas FFFF.
Month April 2019
ECG Case 108
59yr old male who presented to the Emergency Department following 2 episodes of syncope. Describe and interpret this ECG. LITFL Top 100 ECG
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 277
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 277
Jesus Saves
The story of Alastair Coutts and Bob Eason as they try to save a dying patient in a small wooden hut in the Solomon islands with only basic equipment and a little help from Jesus.
William Francis Ganong
William Francis 'Fran' Ganong Jr. (1924 – 2007) was an American physiologist. Eponym: Lown-Ganong-Levine (1952)
Fellows of the UCEM embrace WHORe model
UCEM firmly believes that in the future the management of emergency patients should be outsourced and entirely orchestrated from offshore.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 218
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 218 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
ECG Case 107
86 yr old male referred by his General Practitioner with worsening renal failure. Describe and interpret this ECG. LITFL Top 100 ECG
Antonio Palla
Antonio Palla (1949 - ) is an Italian respiratory and nuclear medicine specialist. Palla sign in pulmonary embolus (1983)
Jellybean 103 Butchery and Ethics
@mededgene is a flight paramedic from Vancouver with a soft spot for that soft spot on the front of your neck. You know the one. It has the cricothyroid membrane behind it.
Ultrasound Case 086
A 75 year old man with a history of fibrosing alveolitis, on home oxygen presented with chest and neck pain, a strange and altered voice and itchy sensation in his throat, and swelling of his neck. It had gradually worsened over 10 days prior to presentation
Don’t put your Patient in a Box
The fourth rule of Expensive Scare Medicine is: 'If you measure something and it is not normal, make it normal if it is safe to do so'. But beware! This can lead to a dangerous and insatiable desire for 'euboxia' - the pathophysiological state whereby 'all boxes on a pathology print-out are in the normal range'.