Ultrasound Case 090
A 30 year old woman presents with right iliac fossa pain. Quantitative BHCG is positive at 2500 IU. Her bladder is empty so you proceed to transvaginal ultrasound.
Category Medical Specialty
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (spinal form of muscular atrophy) is the commonest disease within a group of conditions called Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathies (HMSN).
H Kirk Watson
Biography 1960 – Graduated George Washington University Medical Eponyms Watson’s test (1988) [scaphoid shift] – to assess scapholunate instability Key Medical Attributions Controversies Major Publications Watson HK, Ashmead D 4th, Makhlouf MV. Examination of the scaphoid. J Hand Surg Am. 1988…
Toxicology Antidote Ipecac
Ipecac is no longer recommended for the induction of emesis in acute toxic ingestions, but it is fun to meme its use with the Family Guy
Rabies Vaccine
Indications and Role: The UK recommends a vaccine called Rabipur or Rabies vaccine BP. These are both freeze dried chick embryo cells or human diploid cells retrospectively with inactivated virus. Once reconstituted they should be used within the hour. Administration and…
Rolland J. Whitacre
Biography Born Died Medical Eponyms Whitacre epidural needle Whitacre epidural needle tip is shaped into circular cone or bullet with side-hole for injection of solution. This Pencil Point (Whitacre point) is used for Spinal Anesthesia and is characterized by low…
Robert F. Hustead
Biography Born 1928 Pueblo, Colorado MD, Yale University 1950 – President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists 1959-1961 Johns Hopkins departments of anesthesiology and OB/GYN 1961 – University of Kansas School of Medicine 1973 – Ophthalmic anesthesia Wichita, Kansas Founder…
James Ramsay Hunt
James Ramsay Hunt (1874 – 1937) was an American neurologist.
Synthetic Marijuana
It is probably more appropriate to use the term 'cannabinoid analog' rather than Synthetic Marijuana, but now we’re talking semantics.
Ultrasound Case 089
A woman of 40 presents with intermittent RUQ pain and nausea. You try to find her gallbladder. Wall-echo-shadow (WES) sign
Rabies MCQ
So you can't get enough of tropical medicine and you want to be tested to the extremes of altitude medicine or you are feverish for some tropical torment then this is the page to get your fix of ACT, RIG or schizont. Get your rabies MCQ fix now.
Defibrillation Basics
The ACEM fellowship focuses on ARC guidelines for defibrillation. See this post for the current standards of practise and controversies.