Medmastery: Mortality rate
Franz Weisbauer explains how to calculate mortality rates for various subgroups, proportionate mortality, and why proportionate mortality is not a measure of risk.
Category Medical Specialty
Nail Gun Injuries
Nail gun-related injuries are a serious occupational risk with potentially lethal outcomes. Nail guns were introduced in both industry and the general public back in 1959.
Thyroid function tests in pregnancy
Medmastery: Thyroid Disease Masterclass. Gestational thyrotoxicosis, TSH, and the factors that lead to abnormal thyroid function tests.
Network Five: Toxicology
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 19 - Toxicology reviewing papers on chemical warfare agents, Clozapine and drug overdose in pregnancy.
Levetiracetam
Levetiracetam (keppra) is a drug used as an anticonvulsant as monotherapy, or an adjunct, and as a Tier 2 agent in status epilepticus.
Desmopressin (DDAVP)
Desmopressin (DDAVP) is a drug used primarily for diabetes insipidus, haemophilia type A, and von Willebrand's disease.
Amiodarone and thyroid function
Medmastery: Thyroid Disease Masterclass. The effect of amiodarone on thyroid function
Thionamides in thyroid disease
Medmastery: Review of the appropriate use of thionamides today, as we continue our journey through the Thyroid Disease Masterclass.
Morell Mackenzie
Biography Key Medical Contributions Quoted by Norman Rupert Barrett (1903-1979) in 1950 for his original work and definition of acute oesophagitis. Acute oesophagitis: Acute idiopathic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the oesophagus giving rise to extreme odynphagia, and often…
Thyroid: Hypothyroidism
Medmastery: Thyroid Disease Masterclass course, explores the differences between primary and secondary hypothyroidism
CXR Essentials: Abnormal ETT position
Julian Dobranowski Medmastery video helps you identify aberrantly positioned endotracheal tubes (ETT) on chest x-ray by locating the tip of the ETT and the position of the carina.
Thyroid: Autonomous nodules
Medmastery: Thyroid Disease Masterclass course, pathophysiology of toxic thyroid nodules and how to diagnose them