Not just a PE
A classic respiratory case. This 25 year old female presented with worsening breathless. She has no previous medical problems.
Category Respiratory
Not just pneumonia
A 30 year-old male presented with 24 hours of worsening respiratory distress, following a 5-day prodrome of cough, fever, diarrhoea, lethargy and malaise.
Adolph Kussmaul
Adolph Kussmaul (Adolf Kußmaul) (1822 – 1902) was a German physician. Eponym Kussmaul breathing in Diabetic ketoacidosis (1874)
Camille Biot
Camille Biot (1850 – 1918) was a French physician. Most famous for describing Biot breathing. Biography Born 19 December 1850 Chatenoy-le-Royal, France Intern at Hôtel Dieu Hospital in Lyon, France Practiced in Maçon in 1875 Became member of L’Académie de…
Cure for obstructive sleep apnoea?
Swiss start prescribing the playing of the didgeridoo as a treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea.
Interpreting Chest X-Rays with Dr Eric Strong
Dr Eric Strong is Clinical Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and has created a YouTube Education Channel with a variety of well thought out, well paced, information rich, free lectures which deal with some of 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.
a perplexing paradox…
The case. a 70 year old female is bought to your ED at 10pm via ambulance with a dense right-sided hemiparesis following a witnessed collapse at home only 30 minutes earlier.
PE: Pain, Puzzles and PERC
Insights from the podcast PE/ PERC wars that are raging on the web as a result of the clash of two New York titans on EMCrit...
Pediatric Pneumonia in the ED
Eight Q-and-As to separate the (wo)men from the amoebae on EBmedicine's Feb 2011 review: An Evidence-Based Review Of Pediatric Pneumonia In The ED.
better late than never…
The case. An obese 86 year old female is bought to ED by private car with a 5-6 day history of progressive dyspnoea and fevers. She is promptly rushed into the resus bay in extremis with cyanosis & poor respiratory…
a pulmonary pummelling…
The Case. This patient has been in your ED for over 24 hours waiting for a CCU bed. He presented with vomiting and syncope, but acquired left sided rib fractures during his collapse. He has been comfortable for most of…