Exogenous Calcium Embolism
Patient presentes to ED with acute shortnewss of breath post Percutaneous Vertebroplasty (PVP) with cement embolus cardiovascualr curveball
EMA April 2014
Issue 2 (Vol. 26) of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) for 2014 was published online on 8 April. Editorial overview by Andrew Gosbell & Geoff Hughes
Nicolaes Tulp
Biography Born 11 October 1594 Died 12 September 1674 Medical Eponyms Pulsatile spleen (lien verberans) also know as Gerhardt sign (1882); Sailer sign (1928) first described by Tulp in 1641 Nothing in medical art is better known than that the…
CICM SAQ 2013.2 Q11
A 28-year-old male has been involved in a high-speed motor vehicle crash and admitted to your hospital. His initial GCS at the scene was 5 (E2, V2, M1). He has been intubated and has a hard collar in place.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 172
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 172 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Pneumothorax Case 5
A 36 year old woman presents with sharp left sided chest pain.
What do these clips of her left chest show?
Tetraology of Fallot and BT shunts
Despite the therapeutic measures a 26 day-old boy with Tetralogy of Fallot has severe hypercyanotic spells and needs Blalock-Tausig shunt
Future Pathologies
Can contemporary medical economics combat the growing threat of microbes? Have we created sufficient evolutionary pressures that the microbe diseases of yesteryear and the neglected pathogens of today become a threat for us tomorrow?
EMA Silver Anniversary Issue
This special 25th anniversary issue is literally a 'once in a generation' collection of papers all commissioned, collated, edited and accepted by the outgoing Editor-in-Chief Tony Brown.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 171
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 171 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
DeBakey Dissection
A previously well 50 year old presents with sharp severe chest pain after a long haul flight from North America. DeBakey Dissection
Live non-attenuated transmissible vaccine
Vaccine production during pandemics encounters severe bottlenecks that give rise to the shortages many health departments dread. Chief among these bottlenecks is the availability of bioreactor organisms with sufficient capacity to produce this vital preventative medicine.