LITFL Update 038
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Blood Gas Interpretation. Use the stepwise approach and flowchart provided to add structure to your blood gas interpretation. Identify the primary disorder, secondary disorders, and therefore the differential diagnoses.
Network Five: Practice Changes In Paediatric Wheeze Management. Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 30 reviews updates on paediatric wheeze management with paediatric respiratory and sleep specialist Dr Chetan Pandit.
Elizabeth Blackwell. “If the present arrangements of society will not admit of woman’s free development, then society must be remodeled…” Read more about the first female medical graduate in the English-speaking world.
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There is a culture problem in medicine: 70% of us are disengaged, with more than 50% contributing nothing to our departments and more than 15% actively working against a healthy culture in our departments. Anton sits down with guru Peter Brindley to explore this topic and look at how we can improve and lead culture change in our departments.
Could it be more than just a case of sepsis? This lecture from George Willis challenges the common diagnosis of sepsis and urges us to consider decompensated hypothyroidism as a hidden culprit in critically ill patients.
When a patient in the ED has sinus tachycardia, our job as emergency physicians is to identify and treat the underlying pathology. Brit and Zac approach and go through the differentials when dealing with this scenario.
A 76-year-old female presents saying “My head fell off”. What’s the diagnosis? It’s not psych, and it’s not always related to trauma.
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