Sudden onset blue leg
A woman in the ICU has a problem. Her leg has turned blue. Can you handle this Phlegmasia case-based cardiovascular curveball?
Mirror Image Artefacts
Mirror image artefact occur when ultrasound beam is not reflected directly back to the transducer after hitting a reflective surface
Comet tail artefact
Comet tail artefact is a short path reverberation artefact that weakens with each reverberation, resulting in a vertical echogenic artefact that rapidly fades as it continues in to the ultrasound image.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 164
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 164 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Anticoagulated Patients in the ED
It’s time for a look at the latest review from EBMedicine. This post focuses on the following article: Hanlon D (2010). An Evidence-Based Approach to Managing the Anticoagulated Patient in the Emergency Department. Emergency Medicine Practice, 13(1). This is a…
Airway Lessons from the Austere Environment
The Critically Ill Airway course, run by The Alfred ICU and Monash University, is taking place this week. Among the lineup of elite instructors is Dr Brent May (@docbrent), who has created a 12 minute video lecture on ‘Airway Lessons…
Support a Delegate (Supadel)
Support African emergency medicine by sponsoring healthcare practitioners so that they can attend AFEM conferences.
How Evidence Changes Through The Years
Great overview of evidence based medicine with Professor Kevin Mackway-Jones - the integration of the best evidence, clinical expertise and what the patient wants...
CICM SAQ 2014.2 Q5
Outline the important anatomic features that affect airway management in the paediatric airway and, where appropriate, strategies that may be used to overcome these.
CICM SAQ 2010.2 Q2
A 36 year old female is brought into your Emergency Department with acute shortness of breath. She is unable to provide any history due to her tachypnoea.
CICM SAQ 2010.2 Q18
A junior trainee in distress has asked to speak to you regarding a medical error she has committed that has resulted in a life-threatening adverse outcome for the patient.
Exercise-associated Hyponatremia
A 30 year-old female was BIBA to the ED following a seizure. She was running a marathon in hot weather. Nearing the end, after 5 hours running, she was seen fall to the ground and had a generalised tonic-clonic seizure.