Questions 7.1 A 65-year-old male has been brought into the Emergency Department after being found unconscious at home. He has a heart rate of 87 beats/min, a blood pressure of 96/59 mmHg, and temperature of 31.2oC. Below is his biochemical profile…
It has been a while, but Dr Dork (our first Waiting Room intern) has finally made a second referral in Utopia.
EMA Virtual Issue: Research is important to emergency medicine as it provides the scientific underpinning for optimal patient care. A Primer for Clinical Researchers in the Emergency Department, a five part series guest edited by Professor Franz Babl, has been…
A term as a Clinical Forensic Medicine Registrar at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VFM) is as close as it gets as a doctor to navigating your way through the murky bowels of crime and experiencing the fascinating world of forensic labs, police stations and courts.
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According to an editorial in the NEJM, decompressive craniectomy "has a proven benefit in the management of malignant cerebral edema after ischemic stroke”... We point out the caveats to this assertion.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 162 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
An infographic describing what took place at ANZCEN's very first ICU Clinician Educators Unconference in 2018.
Software engineers working for UCEM at the Symantec Health Institute of Technology have confirmed slugtrails of the Stuxnet worm on several of the UCEM servers.
Cause of HYPOnatraemia Click to enlarge Clinical Severity of symptoms associated with rapidity of loss and extent of fall Complication Correction Depends on rapidity of onset and clinical symptoms Calculations: Na deficit= (desired Na-current Na) x (0.6 x body weight)…
Questions 22. A 45 year old man was admitted to the intensive care unit after sustaining 40% BSA burns in a house fire. He was transported initially to a local hospital where initial resuscitation was commenced including mechanical ventilation for…
Short editorial snippets from Vol. 24 Issue 6 of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) published online on 6 December 2012 produced by Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown