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…
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…
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Outline the important anatomic features that affect airway management in the paediatric airway and, where appropriate, strategies that may be used to overcome these.
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.
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.
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.
Vol. 24 Issue 5 of Emergency Medicine Australasia for 2012 included the following article, which has been re-released FREE as one of the suite of articles in the new international emergency medicine virtual issue:
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 270
This 86 year old male presented with shortness of breath. He developed a complication after insertion of a left chest drain.
Warning: Nerd Alert. Read on at your own risk. Suitable for like-minded individuals prone to reciting eponymous syndromes by moonlight whilst pacing a confined Fibonacci spiral Recently I have been filling the void between 2am and 3am with whimsical searches on the…