Red Dust, dingoes, trauma and Sepsis
Dr Chris Edwards @EMtraveller recounts his time as a remote retrieval registrar based in Alice Springs
Category LITFL
Stuffed, Speeding and Busted!
Just before being busted by the cops, your patient stuffed a package containing metamphetamines into his mouth and swallowed. How are you going to handle this one?
EMA June 2012
Short editorial snippets from Vol. 24 Issue 3 of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) published online on 4 June 2012.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 158
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 158 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Stu Marshall on Airway Strategies
Stuart Marshall is an anaesthetist with a PhD in Human Factors and is the Clinical Director of Simulation Education at The Alfred (based at the Australian Centre for Health Innovation). In this FOAM video, created for the Critically Ill Airway…
The World at War!
That’s right, SMACC SimWars is turning into a global conflict. Hot on the heels of EMCrit’s Scott Weingart announcing himself to be one of SMACC’s elite SimWars judges (and confessing his delight in the sadistic elements of his co-creation), the…
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 157
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 157 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
EMA April 2012
Short editorial comments on articles from Vol. 24 Issue 2 of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) published online in April 2012.
Jean-François Kérandel
Jean Francois Kerandel (1873-1934) was a French physician. Symptoms of African human trypanosomiasis Kerandel sign and symptom
Alvarado score
The Alvarado score is a 10 point score for predicting acute appendicitis (mnemonic MANTRELS). Alfredo Alvarado in 1986
Sidney Farber
Sidney Farber (1903-1973) was an American pediatric pathologist. Farber disease (1952) autosomal-recessive, lysosomal storage disorder caused by acid ceramidase deficiency and associated with distinct clinical phenotypes
Edwin Sterling Munson
Edwin Sterling Munson (1870-1958) was an American ophthalmologist.Munson sign, a V-shaped indentation of the lower eyelid when the gaze is directed downwards, an indication that is characteristic of advanced keratoconus.