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
Tony Brown, until recently Editor of Emergency Medicine Australasia, gives us his answer to the question 'Is the Peer Reviewed Journal Dead?'
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage is an acute, life-threatening event, and repeated episodes can lead to organizing pneumonia, collagen deposition in small airways, and, ultimately, fibrosis
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 161 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
It would be fascinating to run a fly-on-the-wall documentary on life at trolley level in a local Emergency Department. When you’ve been there, done it and survived to watch TV again
Deconditioning occurs as a result of restricted physical activity, and reduces the ability to perform work; can occur with relatively short periods of immobility; affected by age, premorbid state, specific illness and medications
With respect to plasma exchange therapy: What are the physical principles of plasma exchange therapy?
The following blood gases, electrolytes and full blood count relate to a 32-year-old woman post-extubation, following an emergency lower segment Caesarian section at 38 weeks gestation for foetal distress during labour:
The following arterial blood gas and biochemistry results are from a patient with cardiac and respiratory disease and recent profuse vomiting
Discuss the factors that may affect your choice of antimicrobial agent in a critically ill septic patient, giving examples where relevant.