Pregnant and Acidotic
A pregnant patient has pneumonia. There are also concerns that she has a metabolic acidosis. Can you solve this metabolic muddle?
Category Medical Specialty
Ashman Phenomenon
Ashman phenomenon (1947) aberrant ventricular conduction, usually of RBBB morphology, which follows a short RR interval and preceeded by a relatively prolonged RR interval.
Ultrasound Case 014
This 36 year old presented with an isolated blunt head injury sustained whilst on a "big night out". He required intubation and a FAST was performed to assess for any clinically undetected injury prior to RSI. This is the LUQ view. What does it show?
Ultrasound Case 011
A thin and tall young man presents with back pain. Describe and interpret these ultrasound scans
Pneumothorax Case 4
A 32 year old man presents with a 4 day history of increasing right sided chest pain and associated shortness of breath.
ABG changes in Cardiac Arrest and CPR
The degree of acid-base abnormality during cardiac arrest and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is dependent on a number of variables
Arterial Blood Gas in Hypothermia
Arterial Blood Gas in Hypothermia. The solubility of oxygen and carbon dioxide is increased at low temperatures.
Julius Arnold
Julius Arnold (1835 – 1915) was a German pathologist. Eponymously affiliated with Type II Chiari malformation (Arnold–Chiari malformation)
Johann Friedrich Meckel The Younger
Johann Friedrich Meckel (the younger) (1781 – 1833) was a German anatomist. He described the Meckel diverticulum he found during a postmortem examination
Lung ultrasound: Empyema
Empyema is a purulent pleural effusion. Seeding of the pleural space by bacteria or rarely fungi is usually from extension from adjacent pulmonary infection.
Lung ultrasound: Pneumothorax
A pneumothorax, an abnormal collection of gas in the pleural space, separating the parietal pleura of the chest wall from the visceral pleura of the lung.
Max Wilms
Karl Maximilian Wilhelm Wilms (1867 – 1918) was a German surgeon and pathologist. Eponymously affiliated with Wilms Tumour (nephroblastoma)