Subcutaneous emphysema Case 1
An elderly patient with a history of mild COPD presents after falling onto a chair and hitting their chest. The presentation is with chest pain and shortness of breath. What does this scan demonstrate?
Category LITFL
Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Trouble-shooting
Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Trouble-shooting QA cardiovascular curveball. Your patient has poor cardiac output after CABGx4 and starts IABP
The Paradoxical Alternative
49 year female old smoker with two weeks of increasing shortness of breath. She is treated for pneumonia on the ward but getting worse.
EMA August 2013
Insights and summary of Issue 4 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published from Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 168
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Lung ultrasound: Subcutaneous Emphysema
Overview of subcutaneous emphysema with image techniques, differential diagnosis and links to clinical cases
Intra-aortic Balloon Pump
IABP one of your patients had poor cardiac output after a CABGx4 and required the insertion of an intra-aortic balloon pump, what do you do?
EMA June 2013
Insights and summary of Issue 3 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published from Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 167
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 167 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Why so blue?
A 40-year-old man presented to the emergency department with shortness of breath, chest pain and reported a pre-syncopal episode. But why so blue?