Ultrasound Case 103 Fire and Brimstone
A 38 year old woman presents with midcycle LIF pain. It is colicky and you are asked to scan her pelvis. Ultrasound Top 100 Cases
Medmastery: PPV and prevalence
Franz Wiesbauer looks at how a doctor can work out the probability of disease when confronted with a positive or a negative test result and how the prevalence of a given disease affects this probability.
Pediatric CXR Cases 005
September Pediatric Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Jennifer Potter and Nicholena Richardson from EMGuideWire
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 295
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 295
TEE Essentials: Overview of TEE views
Learn how to assimilate the range of possible TEE/TOE probe manipulations in order to obtain the views that they need. Medmastery
Vertigo the Big 3
Dr Peter Johns, Canadian emergency physician and dizziness demystifier, has made a video on how to diagnose ‘The Big 3 of Vertigo” in the ED
5 lessons learned
On our 10th year blogiversary. 5 mistakes made and 5 lessons to learn from creating FOAM and entering the blogosphere
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 294
It's Friday the 13th LITFLers... so of course this week's FFFF will test your knowledge on all types of fearfulness related to this inauspicious date.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 293
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 293
Career Suicide and some Unspoken Rules
“The best advice I can give you is to just swallow. Don’t spit it out, don’t complain. Just swallow” Advice from Anonymous PGY3 Junior Doctor I always thought career suicide would consist of something more dramatic. Stealing drugs from the…
The Crystal Cave
The Crystal Cave - Naica, Mexico. Along with TV journalist Michael Usher and crew (cameraman Andy Taylor and soundman Chick Davies), I was invited along to provide medical support.
Back in Black
After checking the patient’s observations and refitting his oxygen mask, the nurse heard the patient ask: “Are my testicles black?” The nurse raised his eyebrows, then spoke in his Scottish brogue, “I’ll check if you like”. The nurse lifted up…