EMA December 2013
Insights and summary of Issue 6 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published from Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
Category LITFL
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 271
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 271
Everything ECMO
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…
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 170
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 170 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, xmas medical trivia FFFF.
Pneumothorax Case 2
A 16 year old woman presents with pleuritic chest pain and a slight sensation of dyspnoea. What does this ultrasound show?
Manes Kartagener
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.
EMA October 2013
Insights and summary of Issue 5 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published from Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 169
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 169 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
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?
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