Hypercyanotic Episodes in the Newborn
A baby with Tetralogy of Fallot presents to the emergency department in respiratory distress and is 'turning blue'. What will you do?
Category Medical Specialty
Immediate care in sport – time for a change
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…
Safe Sport – Protecting the Players and the Game
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…
Devil’s Horn Sign
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.
Stairs versus Wrist
A 50 year-old woman took a tumble down some steps and injured her left wrist. Can you correctly diagnose and manage her injury?
Distraction
A 50 year-old man required intubation for seizure control after he presented in status epilepticus. Post-intubation chest radiograph is shown.
Gordon Bennett!
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?
Muscular claustrophobia
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?
Broken open
A women attends ER with an open fracture of her lower limb. How will you assess and manage her Open Ankle Fracture in emergency?
Chandler Assessment of the Sick Child
The Chandler assessment tool used to highlight potential red flags for sick kids requiring paediatric admission.
EMI 021 The Model of a Psychopharmacologist
Emergency Musical Interlude: I know Akiskal’s spectrum and it’s not just nosological - I am the very model of a Psychopharmacologist
EMI 020 Anticholinergic Daddy
More Anticholinergic Medical Humor and Emergency Musical Interludes with Ed Schaefer. I'm your anticholinergic daddy and I'm coming home.