Sudden onset blue leg
A woman in the ICU has a problem. Her leg has turned blue. Can you handle this Phlegmasia case-based cardiovascular curveball?
Category Medical Specialty
Broken-hearted chest drain
This 86 year old male presented with shortness of breath. He developed a complication after insertion of a left chest drain.
Lisfranc fracture
Lisfranc fracture named after Jacques Lisfranc de Saint-Martin and his amputation - removal of the forefoot at the tarsometatarsal joint complex (1815)
Robert Arden Miller
Robert Arden Miller (1906 – 1976) American anesthesiologist. Miller laryngoscope blade, first manufactured by the Welch-Allyn Company (1941)
Lifting the lid on a ‘proven therapy’
According to an editorial in the NEJM, decompressive craniectomy "has a proven benefit in the management of malignant cerebral edema after ischemic stroke”... We point out the caveats to this assertion.
Never Kiss a Jellyfish
Although I ‘love’ jellyfish from the point of view of a clinician, I try to avoid getting too ‘up close and personal’ with them. Unfortunately upon diving into the Indian Ocean last weekend – a maneuver described as ‘ungainly’ by…
Open Fractures
An open fracture is a fracture that communicates with an overlying disruption of the skin and soft tissues. They are also called compound fractures. Open fractures are potentially limb-threatening injuries.
Seizures, Sedation and Saliva
A 21-year-old male with a background of schizophrenia and previous intentional overdose, weighing 70kg, was brought to the ED via ambulance after having a witnessed seizure at home.
Red Dust, dingoes, trauma and Sepsis
Dr Chris Edwards @EMtraveller recounts his time as a remote retrieval registrar based in Alice Springs
MRaCC Alice Springs – a retrieval experience like no other!
This is a guest post by Dr Michelle Withers (@desertoak) On February 12th, 2018, a new and completely unique service went live in Alice Springs – the Medical Retrieval and Consultation Centre (MRaCC). The Central Australian Retrieval service has been…
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?
Super Docs 2.0
An insight to Crusaders SuperRugby, pitch side trauma and sports medicine management with Dr Deb Robinson