Lethal and insidious
Addiction is potentially the most lethal disease we encounter in medical practice. As emergency healthcare providers we can have an enormous impact on 'years of life lost' by managing this illness well.
Category Medical Specialty
Patients at the end of life
Mary Jo McVeigh explores the impact of abuse for children and young people and utilise a human rights construct for recovery.
Adult CXR Cases 012
October 2020 Adult Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Travis Barlock, MD and Breeanna Lorenzen MD
Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD): avascular necrosis (AVN) of the proximal femoral head. The disease is usually insidious in onset and may occur after an injury to the hip.
Eduardo Tolosa
Eduard Tolosa i Colomer (1900 - 1981) was a Spanish neurosurgeon. described the superior orbital fissure syndrome in 1954 (Tolosa-Hunt syndrome)
Abdominal Imaging Cases 026
October 2020 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Michael Avery; Joshua Davis; Kelsey Lena and Kyle Cunningham, MD
Barton fracture
Barton fracture: Intra-articular distal radius fracture with radiocarpal joint subluxation. John Rhea Barton described Barton fracture in 1838.
Mueller–Weiss disease
Müller-Weiss syndrome , or spontaneous osteonecrosis of the tarsal navicular in adults, is a rare cause of chronic medial midfoot pain.
Childhood trauma
Mary Jo McVeigh explores the impact of abuse for children and young people and utilise a human rights construct for recovery.
Joseph François Malgaigne
Joseph François Malgaigne (1806-1865) French Surgeon medical historian and critical thinker. Malgaine fracture (1847) unstable pelvic fracture
Osteopoikilosis
Osteopoikilosis is a autosomal dominant sclerosing bony dysplasia characterized by multiple benign benign sclerotic bone lesions (enostoses) that tend to localize in periarticular osseous regions
Pediatric CXR Cases 016
October 2020 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Lizz Olson, MD and Kendra Jackson, MD