Pneumonia is an inflammatory, most commonly infectious process involving the lungs. Typically the alveoli in intensely inflamed areas fill with inflammatory fluid or pus, and this is known as consolidation. The changes may be widespread, patchy or lobar. Ultrasound can…
A pregnant patient has pneumonia. There are also concerns that she has a metabolic acidosis. Can you solve this metabolic muddle?
Ashman phenomenon (1947) aberrant ventricular conduction, usually of RBBB morphology, which follows a short RR interval and preceeded by a relatively prolonged RR interval.
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?
A thin and tall young man presents with back pain. Describe and interpret these ultrasound scans
A 32 year old man presents with a 4 day history of increasing right sided chest pain and associated shortness of breath.
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. The solubility of oxygen and carbon dioxide is increased at low temperatures.
Julius Arnold (1835 – 1915) was a German pathologist. Eponymously affiliated with Type II Chiari malformation (Arnold–Chiari malformation)
Johann Friedrich Meckel (the younger) (1781 – 1833) was a German anatomist. He described the Meckel diverticulum he found during a postmortem examination
Empyema is a purulent pleural effusion. Seeding of the pleural space by bacteria or rarely fungi is usually from extension from adjacent pulmonary infection.
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.