Fellows of the UCEM embrace WHORe model
UCEM firmly believes that in the future the management of emergency patients should be outsourced and entirely orchestrated from offshore.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 218
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 218 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
ECG Case 107
86 yr old male referred by his General Practitioner with worsening renal failure. Describe and interpret this ECG. LITFL Top 100 ECG
Antonio Palla
Antonio Palla (1949 - ) is an Italian respiratory and nuclear medicine specialist. Palla sign in pulmonary embolus (1983)
Jellybean 103 Butchery and Ethics
@mededgene is a flight paramedic from Vancouver with a soft spot for that soft spot on the front of your neck. You know the one. It has the cricothyroid membrane behind it.
Ultrasound Case 086
A 75 year old man with a history of fibrosing alveolitis, on home oxygen presented with chest and neck pain, a strange and altered voice and itchy sensation in his throat, and swelling of his neck. It had gradually worsened over 10 days prior to presentation
Don’t put your Patient in a Box
The fourth rule of Expensive Scare Medicine is: 'If you measure something and it is not normal, make it normal if it is safe to do so'. But beware! This can lead to a dangerous and insatiable desire for 'euboxia' - the pathophysiological state whereby 'all boxes on a pathology print-out are in the normal range'.
Biological Basis for Blood-Brain Barrier
UCEM's neurologists unveil the biological basis for the character divide between surgeons and anaesthetists. These functional neuroanatomical maps reveal all.
Compartment Syndrome
Compartment Syndrome. CS is a limb threatening condition caused by raised pressure within a facial compartment.
The Art of Sloughing
Your first referral to an inpatient team can be daunting. As a waiting room MUPPET it is often your first opportunity to put into practice lessons learned from years of medical pimping. The UCEM hopes to demonstrate through a series of video tutorials, the alternate sloughing methods employed by internal specialists. Awareness of sloughing tactics will greatly assist in refining your referral skills.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 217
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 217 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Dawson on Organophosphates: Tox Asian Style
Clinical Toxicologist Andre Dawson shares his knowledge and experience of organophosphate poisoning in 'Tox Asian Style' at SMACC.