How Evidence Changes Through The Years
Great overview of evidence based medicine with Professor Kevin Mackway-Jones - the integration of the best evidence, clinical expertise and what the patient wants...
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Seldinger Technique
Seldinger Technique a technique for safe percutaneous access to vessels and hollow organs that is widely used today. Sven Ivar Seldinger (1921 – 1998)
Exercise-associated Hyponatremia
A 30 year-old female was BIBA to the ED following a seizure. She was running a marathon in hot weather. Nearing the end, after 5 hours running, she was seen fall to the ground and had a generalised tonic-clonic seizure.
EMA Capacity building in International EM
Vol. 24 Issue 5 of Emergency Medicine Australasia for 2012 included the following article, which has been re-released FREE as one of the suite of articles in the new international emergency medicine virtual issue:
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 270
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 270
Broken-hearted chest drain
This 86 year old male presented with shortness of breath. He developed a complication after insertion of a left chest drain.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 163
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 163 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Lisfranc fracture
Lisfranc fracture named after Jacques Lisfranc de Saint-Martin and his amputation - removal of the forefoot at the tarsometatarsal joint complex (1815)
Robert Arden Miller
Robert Arden Miller (1906 – 1976) American anesthesiologist. Miller laryngoscope blade, first manufactured by the Welch-Allyn Company (1941)
Robert Andrew Hingson
Robert Andrew Hingson (1913-1996) was an American anesthesiologist. Pioneer in anesthesiology introducing peridural analgesia for labour and delivery.
Sven-Ivar Seldinger
Sven Ivar Seldinger (1921 – 1998) was a Swedish Radiologist. Seldinger Technique a technique for safe percutaneous access to vessels and hollow organs that is widely used today.
Primer for Clinical Research
EMA Virtual Issue: Research is important to emergency medicine as it provides the scientific underpinning for optimal patient care. A Primer for Clinical Researchers in the Emergency Department, a five part series guest edited by Professor Franz Babl, has been…