Wide, Complex and Troublesome
A regular wide complex tachycardia. What is the role of adenosine in diagnosis and treatment? What are the other options?
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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.
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.
Pietro Grocco
Pietro Grocco (1856 - 1916) was an Italian physician
Paul Broca
Pierre Paul Broca (1824 – 1880) was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. Best known for his research on a region of the frontal lobe involved with language (Broca's area)
Crippen’s Law
Will dual trainees in emergency medicine and intensive care always succumb to Crippen's Law?
François Chaussier
François Chaussier (1746-1828) was a French anatomist and physician. He proposed the use of oxygen in pediatric resus (1781) and the laryngeal intubation (1806)
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 224
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 224 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Refetoff Syndrome
Description Refetoff Syndrome: Thyroid hormone resistance is a rare syndrome in which thyroid hormone levels are elevated but the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level is not suppressed (or not completely suppressed as would be expected). History 1967 – first report…