The Critically Ill Airway course, run by The Alfred ICU and Monash University, is taking place this week. Among the lineup of elite instructors is Dr Brent May (@docbrent), who has created a 12 minute video lecture on ‘Airway Lessons…
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Great overview of evidence based medicine with Professor Kevin Mackway-Jones - the integration of the best evidence, clinical expertise and what the patient wants...
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.
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:
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 270
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 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
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 (1906 – 1976) American anesthesiologist. Miller laryngoscope blade, first manufactured by the Welch-Allyn Company (1941)
Robert Andrew Hingson (1913-1996) was an American anesthesiologist. Pioneer in anesthesiology introducing peridural analgesia for labour and delivery.
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…