In specialist centres, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a now a mainstay of the management of cardio/respiratory failure refractory to other measures. However, much of the clinical information required to care for ECMO patients at the bedside remains inaccessible to…
LITFL highlights the 'Uncertainty of Truth' from the 'Dispatches from the FOAM Frontier' series published by Emergency Medicine Australasia.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 170 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, xmas medical trivia FFFF.
A 16 year old woman presents with pleuritic chest pain and a slight sensation of dyspnoea. What does this ultrasound show?
When the preconditions for the clinical determination of brain death cannot be met, what imaging modalities are recommended to determine absence of intracranial blood flow? What findings in each test confirm brain death?
Outline the role of ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) as a supportive strategy in the critically ill.
Manes Kartagener (1897 - 1975) was an Austrian-Swiss physician. First to report the triad of situs inversus, chronic sinusitis and bronchiectasis in 1933 – Kartagener syndrome.
Molecular biologists working with a team of anthropologists have discovered a new gene that is set to revise the theories of social structure in humans. The team initially embarked on an ambitious project to discover when humans and our early…
Management has synonymously been associated with bad decisions, selective cost cutting, raising it’s own salary and attempting to rob others of their ideas. This perception has led people to view managers as parasites, which according to new scientific data may…
Insights and summary of Issue 5 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published from Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
Q1. A 49-year-old female, with a history of pulmonary vasculitis is found collapsed in the ward with shallow breathing and a GCS of 6.
Questions a) List the clinical features that indicate a poor prognosis in a patient with community-acquired pneumonia? b) List 5 common organisms causing severe community acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent adults. c) What are the possible reasons for non-response to empiric…