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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 163 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
A 47 year old man falls 4m onto a wall, hitting his left chest wall. He is complaining of chest pain and you wonder whether there is a pneumothorax. Describe and interpret these scans
Lisfranc fracture named after Jacques Lisfranc de Saint-Martin and his amputation - removal of the forefoot at the tarsometatarsal joint complex (1815)
A 43-year-old woman is transferred to your Intensive Care Unit from a regional hospital following a motor vehicle crash. She is in haemorrhagic shock secondary to abdominal and pelvic trauma and received 3L crystalloid and 8 units O Rh(D) negative blood prior to arrival in your hospital.
A 74-year-old man with known ischaemic heart disease was admitted to hospital for treatment of worsening heart failure (day 1)
Outline methods for diagnosing CMV infection in the critically ill immunocompetent patient.
Outline your approach to the assessment of nutritional status in a critically ill patient, including the use of appropriate laboratory tests.
Questions 1.1 Briefly outline the rationale for the use of hypertonic saline in: Hyponatremia Traumatic brain injury 1.2 List the possible complications of hypertonic saline administration. Answers
Robert Arden Miller (1906 – 1976) American anesthesiologist. Miller laryngoscope blade, first manufactured by the Welch-Allyn Company (1941)
Robert Andrew Hingson (1913-1996) was an American anesthesiologist. Pioneer in anesthesiology introducing peridural analgesia for labour and delivery.
Diarrhoea: common in ICU; pathophysiology: secretory, motor, exudative, osmotic