Much has been said about how medicine should strive to emulate the enviable safety record of the aviation industry. This has led to a thorough examination of how the two “industries” compare and contrast. One of the more interesting comparisons…
A simple question – what is the chief function of the consultant? The answer is probably the same, regardless of what you mean by ‘consultant’. In the anglo-antipodean world ‘consultant’ typically means a doctor who has completed their specialty exams…
The unexpected collides with 4 hour rule in the natural laboratory for error that is the emergency department… Act II and epilogue
Review these chest radiographs of an ICU patient with respiratory deterioration. What has been missed? What cognitive bias contributed to the error?
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.
Intensive Care Network and Dr Hergen Buescher present 3 videos on 'owning the ECMO'!
C. H. Joseph Chang (1929 - 2017) was an American radiologist. Chang sign (CXR finding in pulmonary embolus) decribed in 1965
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 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
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 (1825-1893) was a French neurologist and anatomopathologist.
bronchial blocker is a device that can isolate part of the bronchial tree at the lobar level