Palpable Excitement
A 76 year-old man presents with a florid spreading violaceous rash over most of his body - Palpable Purpura - What is your differential diagnosis?
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Sulfa Drug Discombobulation
Is it safe to give a patient frusemide if he has an allergy to sulfa drugs? Are you feeling slightly immunologically discombobulated? The answer's here.
Traumatic Angioedema
A 33 year old caucasian female presented to the emergency department following minor trauma to her upper lip. Traumatic Angioedema?
Vincenz Czerny
Biography Medical Eponyms Key Medical Attributions Paget disease of bone Paget defined the modern clinical entity in a paper read in 1876 and published in 1877, naming it osteitis deformans. Although Czerny had used the term Ostitis deformans in 1873…
The perfect human pathogen?
With winter comes norovirus. This Q&A post tests your knowledge of what may be the perfect human pathogen.
Fever in a spinal patient
A woman had a spinal injury from a car crash at 2 years of age; she since had spinal surgery and has a baclofen pump. Now she has a fever - what's the cause?
Escaping bugs
A 13-year old female with pyelonephritis is being treated with ceftriaxone. Enterobacter cloacae is cultured. Got a problem with that?
Sick, Shocked and Sunburned?
A 15 year-old female with fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, whole body 'sunburn' and hypotension. It's over to you...
CAP Challenge!
Australia CAP - 'Microbial Mystery' of case-based Q&As focusing on causative organisms and antibiotic selection.
Fulminant pneumococcal pneumonia
A 27 year old female with metastatic ovarian cancer for whom treatment options have been exhausted arrives in the ED in extremis.
Gram Negative Diplococci
21 year-old presenting to the emergency department with fevers and agitation. His lumbar puncture confirms Gram Negative Diplococci
Gastric Residual Volume
Gastric residual volume is the amount aspirated from the stomach following administration of enteral feed. An aspirated amount of ≤ 500ml 6 hourly is safe and indicates that the GIT is functioning