A Mortal Battle with Four Hour Medicine II
The unexpected collides with 4 hour rule in the natural laboratory for error that is the emergency department… Act II and epilogue
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Are you Satisficed?
Review these chest radiographs of an ICU patient with respiratory deterioration. What has been missed? What cognitive bias contributed to the error?
A Mortal Battle with Four Hour Medicine
The unexpected collides with 4 hour rule in the natural laboratory for error that is the emergency department... Act 1: The Existential Installment and Act 2: The Clinical Section...WITH a cliffhanger.
Own the ECMO!
Intensive Care Network and Dr Hergen Buescher present 3 videos on 'owning the ECMO'!
C. H. Joseph Chang
C. H. Joseph Chang (1929 - 2017) was an American radiologist. Chang sign (CXR finding in pulmonary embolus) decribed in 1965
Entrapped
You are handed over a patient by a colleague (that's a 'handoff' to you Yanks)... He says he would usually send a patient like this home, but as the d-dimer is pending he suggests the patient should wait for the result.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 104
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 104 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Malabsorption DDx
Malabsorption can result from pancreatic enzyme deficiency, bile salt deficiency, defects of the absorptive epithelium and defects in removing absorbed fat from the epithelium.
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) was a French neurologist and anatomopathologist.
Bronchial blocker
bronchial blocker is a device that can isolate part of the bronchial tree at the lobar level
Wells Criteria for Pulmonary Embolus
Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History Associated Persons Philip Steven Wells Alternative names Name Name Controversies Did they first describe or popularise or plagiarise? References Wells PS, Anderson DR, Rodger M, Forgie M, Kearon C, Dreyer J, Kovacs…
Wells Criteria for DVT
Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History Associated Persons Philip Steven Wells Alternative names Name Name Controversies Did they first describe or popularise or plagiarise? References Wells PS, Anderson DR, Rodger M, Stiell I, Dreyer JF, Barnes D, Forgie…