Wide, Complex and Troublesome
A regular wide complex tachycardia. What is the role of adenosine in diagnosis and treatment? What are the other options?
Month April 2019
Emergency Medicine Kwa-Zulu Natal Style
Sandy Inglis sends us another gripping warts-and-all 'postcard from the edge'. This time he writes as the Head of Department in a KwaZulu Natal emergency department.
Samuel Refetoff
Samuel Refetoff (1937 – ) Bulgarian born, Canadian qualified, American practicing endocrinologist describing Thyroid hormone resistance (TRH) in 1967
Ronald Ross
Major Ronald Ross (1857-1932) was the epitome of the Victorian bug hunters, born in the Himalayas in the heyday of the British Empire, he returned to his roots as a physician where he pursued Manson and Laveran’s hypothesis that the…
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 225
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 226 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Caustic Ingestion: Acid
Toilet bowl cleaners in the United States tend to be acidic in nature so I chose the ‘Ty-D-Bol Man’ as our victim for this Caustic Ingestion flashcard.
A Potent but Weak Solution to Oil’s Peak
Known as unscientific, dangerous, potentially deadly, quackery, and other less than flattering but accurate terms, but it seems that science's attempts to dilute the false positive claims homeopathy makes only seems to make it stronger.
Evidence-based Homeopathy
Evidence-based Homeopathy is an exciting new textbook. This exhaustive tome is essential reading for all candidates for the up-coming UCEM Fellowship.
Watch, Laugh, Learn, Live
We've dug up some classic TED talks on education from Sir Ken Robinson. Watch, laugh, learn and live.
Jellybean 105 Emergency Medicine in Zambia
At the moment there is only one public emergency department in Zambia that actually has a trained emergency physician. It only has one.
What motivates us?
Are you curious about what motivates us? Money? Think again. Watch this YouTube video by RSAnimate and Dan Pink on Motivation, and you might be surprised.
Food allergy amplification all the RAGE
Could false alarmin be the missing link in the rise of food allergies and the anaphylactic march?