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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 171 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
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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
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.
EMA December 2013
Insights and summary of Issue 6 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published from Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
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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
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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
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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?