KEY FEATURES CAB (ERC still advocates 5 initial rescue breaths) good quality CPR in 15:2 ratio removal of ‘look, listen, feel’ de-emphasis on pulse check AED and defibrillation use encouraged (infants manual defibrillation) capnography recommended defibrillation: 4 J/kg adrenaline 10…
What is the explanation for the discrepancy between the oxygen saturations on pulse oximetry and on arterial blood gas analysis in this patient?
What are the definitions used to define "Critical Bleeding" and "Massive Transfusion"?
The trauma room has turned into a blood bath. You're going to have to buy new shoes. What should you throw at the patient - the kitchen sink or Factor VII?
An intern in the emergency department has been nervously standing behind you for the past ten minutes while you've dealt with a barrage of phone calls. He wants to discuss the positive d-dimer result of the patient he is working up. Y
Paget’s disease of the nipple typically presents as a persistent abnormality of the nipple–areola complex, often resembling eczema or chronic dermatitis. The nipple or areola may become erythematous, hyperpigmented, crusted and thickened. It is hardened or nodular, with surface scaling,…
A patient is day 1 post-laparotomy. his abdomen feels tight and his urine output has dropped off... Can you save the day in this gastrointestinal gutwrencher?
You are assessing a 37 year old male in the emergency department. He appears to be in discomfort and states that he fell asleep at a party and thinks ‘someone put something up his back passage while he was out of it’.
A man, originally from Somalia, is jaundiced and has abnormal LFTs. Can you work out the cause?
A 29 year-old man has recurrent abdominal pain. Can you make the diagnosis where others have failed? Is this a Gordian knot?
A 50 year-old man presented to the ED with sharp abdominal pain localised to his left lower quadrant.
Heinrich Köbner (1838 – 1904) was a German dermatologist. Eponym: Koebner phenomenon; Köbner syndrome (Epidermolysis bullosa simplex)