LITFL Update 043
Update 043. Sending you FOAMed content from around the globe. Latest trends and best articles so that you stay top of your field.
LITFL Update 039
Update 039. Sending you FOAMed content from around the globe. Latest trends and best articles so that you stay top of your field.
Severe disability
Stuart Browne is a Neuro Rehabilitation specialist from Sydney. He discusses what “severe disability” really means.
Adolphe Pinard
Adolphe Pinard (1844–1934) was a French obstetrician
Bernhard Naunyn
Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1925) was a German physician and pathologist.
LITFL Update 037
Update 037. Sending you FOAMed content from around the globe. Latest trends and best articles so that you stay top of your field.
Jack Barnes and the Irukandji Enigma
In 1961, Jack Handyside Barnes, his nine year-old son, and a local surf lifesaver were rushed to Cairns Base Hospital after developing Irukandji syndrome.
Scombroid Poisoning
Scombroid poisoning occurs after the ingestion of fish with high histamine levels due to improper processing or storage. One of the most common causes of morbidity associated with fish intake
Optimal Cerebral Perfusion Pressure
Mark Weedon takes us through the increasingly utilised concept of an optimal cerebral perfusion pressure (CPPopt) for each unique patient.
Jack Barnes
John (Jack) Handyside Barnes (1922-1985) was an Australian medical practitioner and toxinologist. 1964 the first specimens of the small stinger Carukia barnesi (Irukandji)
Irukandji Jellyfish
Irukandji Syndrome - originally a mystery was solved by some self experimentation of Dr Jack Barnes, his nine-year old son and local surf lifesaver. He proved that the thumbnail sized carybdeid (or four tentacled box jellyfish) could cause Irukandji syndrome but placing it on all three of them.
Irukandji syndrome
Irukandji syndrome is a distressing envenoming secondary to the sting of Carukia barnesi and other, as yet unidentified, jellyfish found in coastal waters of tropical Australia.