Retrievals: Too… to stay here!
Retrievals: we don't use the term in the US - moving a patient from one hospital to another, even in the rare instance that a Doctor is in attendance, is a transfer.
Category Medical Specialty
Emergency Imaging in Tassie
Rick Abbott gives us his take on the good, the bad and the ugly of the different emergency radiology services he's encountered in Tasmania and the United States.
Clear!!!
LITFL's 'American ER Doc Gone Walkabout' Rick Abbott tells us about his personal adventures with 'hands on' defibrillation and cardioversion... Are you ready for CPR with no interruptions?
Where we work
Do you work in an emergency department, or a "shop"?
R&R In The FASTLANE 189
Welcome to the 189th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians
R&R In The FASTLANE 180
Welcome to the 180th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media
shrouded shock…
the case. 46 year old male is bought into your resuscitation bay by local ambulance following a three metre fall from a work platform onto a horizontal metal railing below.
another bubble of trouble…
the case. 43 year old female is brought into your resuscitation bay by the paramedics. She has a 2 day history of vomiting and diarrhoea on the background of type 2 diabetes and alcohol abuse. Her son is concerned that…
bubble of trouble…
the case. 76 year old male presents to your Emergency Department via ambulance with right hip pain and a fever of 38.1*C.
an insidious intruder…
the case. 28 year old male presents to your tertiary emergency department with chest pain, exertional dyspnoea and left calf pain.
All Bleeding Stops
I think I can feel an epistaxis post in the works. Before there was Bodies there was Jed Mercurio‘s cult classic Cardiac Arrest. Our mate at Movin’ Meat would agree, all bleeding stops… Eventually. Is it just coincidence that the…
Where should I stick this?
Searching my image library for adjunctive multimedia has brought back some great memories. Indeed wearing my retrospectacles affords wistful reminiscences of the persistent, whining and obtuse questions I asked (without research) of my mentors during training.