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.
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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.
EMA December 2013
Insights and summary of Issue 6 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published from Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
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It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 271
Everything ECMO
In specialist centres, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a now a mainstay of the management of cardio/respiratory failure refractory to other measures. However, much of the clinical information required to care for ECMO patients at the bedside remains inaccessible to…
The Uncertainty of Truth
LITFL highlights the 'Uncertainty of Truth' from the 'Dispatches from the FOAM Frontier' series published by Emergency Medicine Australasia.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 170
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 170 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, xmas medical trivia FFFF.
Pneumothorax Case 2
A 16 year old woman presents with pleuritic chest pain and a slight sensation of dyspnoea. What does this ultrasound show?
CICM SAQ 2010.2 Q12
When the preconditions for the clinical determination of brain death cannot be met, what imaging modalities are recommended to determine absence of intracranial blood flow? What findings in each test confirm brain death?
CICM SAQ 2010.2 Q11
Outline the role of ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) as a supportive strategy in the critically ill.