How confident would you be if you are taken out of your emergency room and transported to be pitchside caring for a critically injured athlete? Your only medical equipment is strapped to your waist in a small bag; you have…
Rugby and contact sport has always been a part of my life; from the junior rugby fields where organizing young children is like herding cats, to university rugby with post game beers and weekly rejection from the blondes of the…
A young man injures his hand and realises something isn't right when he performs the 'Devil's Horn' sign while listening to Heavy Metal.
A 50 year-old woman took a tumble down some steps and injured her left wrist. Can you correctly diagnose and manage her injury?
A 50 year-old man required intubation for seizure control after he presented in status epilepticus. Post-intubation chest radiograph is shown.
A 27 year-old amateur martial artist needs your help after smashing his fist through a plank of wood. Can you diagnose and manage his injury?
A 27 year-old man sustained an undisplaced midshaft fracture of his tibia, he was put in a long leg cast and sent home...what happened next?
A women attends ER with an open fracture of her lower limb. How will you assess and manage her Open Ankle Fracture in emergency?
The Chandler assessment tool used to highlight potential red flags for sick kids requiring paediatric admission.
Emergency Musical Interlude: I know Akiskal’s spectrum and it’s not just nosological - I am the very model of a Psychopharmacologist
More Anticholinergic Medical Humor and Emergency Musical Interludes with Ed Schaefer. I'm your anticholinergic daddy and I'm coming home.
A 10 minute medley of neurological wonder - thought it would be worth sharing this little ditty on cranial nerves to awaken your inner geek!