biochemical bugaboo…
the case. a 62 year old female presents to ED with breathlessness & chest pain.
Category LITFL
AusMAT Bravo on the way to the Philippines
Team Bravo heads to Tacloban to continue the “shining light” that is the Australasian AusMAT medical response to Typhoon Haiyan. Be safe guys.
AusMAT in Tacloban after Typhoon Haiyan
I just wanted to share here a link to an ABC write up of the AusMAT deployment in Tacloban after Typhoon Haiyan. Ian Norton and Mark Little are out there leading a team of dedicated folk around the clock, and…
Quick Case #05
the case. a 42 year old male presents via ambulance with chest pain following an motor vehicle accident.
catching the culprit…
the case. a 32 year old male presents to ED with a 4 hour history of retrosternal chest pain. He has had the pain since midnight and it “just isn’t going away”. This is his ECG…
Busting the clotbusters (from SMACC 2013)
As revenge for an incident best left unmentioned, Chris Nickson of litfl.com handed me the poisoned chalice of speaking on tPA for stroke at SMACC 2013. This is the result. (Un)fortunately there is no actual video footage as I wasn’t…
hot & spotty…
the case. A mother brings her 18 month old child to your emergency department with a 24 hour history of fevers. She is now worried that her daughter has developed these little red spots.
Laceration Repair
Dr Brian Lin has created a great #FOAMed video education site for 'closing the gap' at LacerationRepair.com
SMACC, Down But Not Out
Simply put, the three days of the SMACC 2013 conference were greatest three days of my professional life. I can’t believe it happened, and I can hardly believe it is over. If, five years ago, you had told me that…
PK SMACC-talk Winner
Congratulations to David Anderson, the winner of the PK SMACC-talk competition with his 400 second long talk on the history of prehospital and retrieval medicine.
The Essence of Critical Care
Scott Weingart of EMCrit opens SMACC by telling us about 'The Essence of Critical Care'.
Does Ibuprofen protect against Acute Mountain Sickness?
The issue of prevention of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) has been debated extensively on the high altitude walking tracks around the world and also in the literature