Hypoglycaemia can occur at therapeutic doses especially in those who develop renal impairment. In overdose these drugs cause a profound and prolonged hypoglycaemia, usually apparent within 8 hours post ingestion of a standard preparation.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 188 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Define cachexia. List the factors that may predispose to cachexia AND the consequences of cachexia in a ventilated patient with sepsis and multi-organ dysfunction syndrome.
In patients suffering from major burns, outline the possible physiologic derangements and their underlying mechanisms that could contribute to problems of oxygenation and ventilation.
Outline the Intensive Care management of a 25-year-old male who has fulfilled brain death criteria and is awaiting surgery for organ donation.
We are all at risk of missing the giant man in the gorilla suit every day in ED.
Working in the ED environment is unlike most other areas of medicine. Stress levels can be high, maintaining patient flow in the face of access block and exit block can seem futile, and a chaotic environment
Days 2 and 3 of essentials 2010 have come and gone. It was no surprise to me, nor to other EMCrit fanatics, that Scott Weingart, MD stole the show with his talks on (p)re-oxygenation; delayed sequence intubation, and post-arrest care. More detailed information on these topics be found on EMCrit - go there now!
A decade after Wrenn and Slovis gave us the 'Ten Commandments of Emergency Medicine', Timothy Givens proposed the following 'Ten commandments of Pediatric Emergency Medicine' to supplement the originals.
"VT or not VT? That is the question..." you muse. Then your patient Bill says "A shock, a shock, my kingdom for a shock"...
Sir Peter Wyllie of Alice Springs was the inaugural winner of the F.UCEM PhD (Publicly Happy to Display) award. Now Sir Peter Wyllie goes one step further…heli jumping over Noonamah, NT
William Osler teaches us that a sense of humor and fun helps doctors fight off stress, connect with others, and stops them from taking themselves too seriously.