Shreyas launches Ask Pramod, a new series under The Critical Debrief in which we walk through Pramod's research and discuss clinical application. In this first episode we discuss sedative drug overdose and evaluate if there are features of the early clinical assessment that can reliably predict the outcome?
Know Your Lines: adult and paediatric trauma radiograph guides covering key lines, angles, ratios, signs and fracture classifications.
Hip and pelvic radiographic lines, arcs, angles and eponyms used to assess developmental dysplasia, SCFE, mature hip morphology and alignment.
Awake in VF. Inferior OMI complicated by refractory ventricular fibrillation, CPR-induced consciousness, stellate ganglion block and successful PCI.
Recognising HIV one ED visit at a time By the time HIV is diagnosed, the patient may already have passed through the emergency department more than once. The median interval between acquiring HIV and diagnosis is around three years, and…
Customisable fracture treatment poster with radiographs, splinting guidance and fillable local follow-up pathways for emergency department use.
Bennett fracture: definition, imaging, management, distinction from Rolando fracture, and the history of Edward Hallaran Bennett’s eponymous injury.
Köhler line is the ilioischial line on AP pelvis X-ray, to assess coxa profunda and protrusio acetabuli. History and interpretation.
Gilula carpal arcs. Three smooth lines used to assess carpal alignment on PA wrist X-rays. Definition, disruption, variants and history.
Shenton line is the cervico-obturator arc used to assess hip alignment on AP pelvic radiographs. Definition, history, Ménard attribution and eponymythology.
Böhler angle: radiographic measurement, normal values, clinical use, limitations and the original 1929 description by Lorenz Böhler.
Freiberg infraction is osteochondrosis of a lesser metatarsal head, usually the second. Review presentation, imaging, treatment, history and eponymythology.