Ultrasound Case 078
A 48 year old woman presents with RUQ pain of 3 days duration. She has had several similar briefer episodes but on this occasion it has not settled and she has developed jaundice.
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 175 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Electrocardiographic Exigency
A 23 year-old man had an episode of syncope at home. He is in severe respiratory distress, extremely pale, dripping with sweat. ECG Exigency
Investigative Epidemiology
Putting your head above the parapet Part of the joys of studying at the Liverpool Tropical School of Medicine is the weekly Wednesday lunchtime lectures. This week we were treated to investigative journalist Deborah Cohen (@deb-cohen), an award winning medically…
CICM SAQ 2012.2 Q13
List the techniques / measurements that are available to assess the circulation status of a patient in the intensive care unit.
EMA June 2014
Issue 3 (Vol. 26) of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) for 2014 was published online on 4 June. Editorial overview by Andrew Gosbell & Geoff Hughes
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 174 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Cough or kill
I am a belligerent skeptic of over-the-counter cough and cold medications. I've been this way since well before I ever entertained the idea of being a doctor.
CICM SAQ 2013.2 Q2
Outline the advantages and disadvantages of the various techniques used in the diagnosis and monitoring of vasospasm secondary to aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.
CICM SAQ 2015.1 Q18
The following data refer to a 65-year-old male admitted to ICU with septic shock on a background of active rheumatoid arthritis.
CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q8
Compare and contrast the intraventricular catheter and the intraparenchymal fibreoptic transducer for intracranial pressure monitoring in critically ill patients.
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 173 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.