Vaccine production during pandemics encounters severe bottlenecks that give rise to the shortages many health departments dread. Chief among these bottlenecks is the availability of bioreactor organisms with sufficient capacity to produce this vital preventative medicine.
Insights and summary of Issue 6 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published from Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
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In specialist centres, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a now a mainstay of the management of cardio/respiratory failure refractory to other measures. However, much of the clinical information required to care for ECMO patients at the bedside remains inaccessible to…
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A 16 year old woman presents with pleuritic chest pain and a slight sensation of dyspnoea. What does this ultrasound show?
Manes Kartagener (1897 - 1975) was an Austrian-Swiss physician. First to report the triad of situs inversus, chronic sinusitis and bronchiectasis in 1933 – Kartagener syndrome.
Insights and summary of Issue 5 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published from Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
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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?
Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Trouble-shooting QA cardiovascular curveball. Your patient has poor cardiac output after CABGx4 and starts IABP
49 year female old smoker with two weeks of increasing shortness of breath. She is treated for pneumonia on the ward but getting worse.