Medicine, mindfulness, movement, mental (ill)health and creativity
Medicine, mindfulness, movement, mental (ill)health and creativity. Guest post: Dr Elizabeth Winson (@DrLemmingo). Liz is a intensive care doctor in Melbourne, Australia.
Ultrasound Case 098
A 55 year old man presents with upper calf tenderness and slight swelling. He has just returned from trekking in Nepal. He has a minor knee effusion clinically with tender subtle swelling of his upper calf. You consider the probable differential as DVT, calf muscle injury and Baker's cyst with or without rupture.
Pleural Effusion Case 001
A young patient with a history of sarcoma presents with shortness of breath. What does this clip show?
ECG Case 117
ECG of a 14yr old female who presents following an episode of palpitations and associated dizziness. Interpret her ECG using the Arruda algorithm
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 284
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 284
Pediatric CXR Cases 002
June Pediatric Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Jennifer Potter and Nicholena Richardson from EMGuideWire
Ultrasound Case 097
A 47 year old previously healthy man presents with sore throat / neck, dry cough and shortness of breath for 2 weeks. This had not improved despite inhalers and a course of antibiotics. He also describes widespread aches and pains including in both calves. There is some swelling in his right lower neck and you wonder whether it is lymphadenopathy, an abscess or something else.
ECG Case 116
These ECGs were taken from a 40 yr old male who presented with a 60 minute history of central chest pain. Describe and interpret his ECG
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 283
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 283
There can only be not enough beds
Winter is upon us. Olde Utopian saying. There can only be not enough beds...
History of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Walt Whitman’s poem sings the praises of life as a metaphor for the long and fascinating history of cardiopulmonary resuscitation...
Placebo Weirdness
Check out @ProfessorFunk‘s kinetic typography take on the utter weirdness of placebos, based on information from @BenGoldacre‘s superlative book, Bad Science. One way NOT to administer the ‘placebo’ effect…