Category LITFL

Nicolaes Tulp

Biography Born 11 October 1594 Died 12 September 1674 Medical Eponyms Pulsatile spleen (lien verberans) also know as Gerhardt sign (1882); Sailer sign (1928) first described by Tulp in 1641 Nothing in medical art is better known than that the…

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Pneumothorax Case 5

A 36 year old woman presents with sharp left sided chest pain.
What do these clips of her left chest show?

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EMA Silver Anniversary Issue

This special 25th anniversary issue is literally a 'once in a generation' collection of papers all commissioned, collated, edited and accepted by the outgoing Editor-in-Chief Tony Brown.

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DeBakey Dissection

A previously well 50 year old presents with sharp severe chest pain after a long haul flight from North America. DeBakey Dissection

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Live non-attenuated transmissible vaccine

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.

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EMA December 2013

Insights and summary of Issue 6 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published from Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown

Everything ECMO

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…