CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q8
Compare and contrast the intraventricular catheter and the intraparenchymal fibreoptic transducer for intracranial pressure monitoring in critically ill patients.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 173
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 173 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Bedside Echo in Pulmonary Embolism
A 35 year-old female is brought to the emergency department after collapsing in a shopping centre. McConnell sign
CICM SAQ 2013.2 Q17
List the possible reasons why a patient with septic shock from infected pancreatitis may have ongoing hypotension despite intravenous fluid therapy, antibiotics and escalating inotrope requirement.
Exogenous Calcium Embolism
Patient presentes to ED with acute shortnewss of breath post Percutaneous Vertebroplasty (PVP) with cement embolus cardiovascualr curveball
EMA April 2014
Issue 2 (Vol. 26) of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) for 2014 was published online on 8 April. Editorial overview by Andrew Gosbell & Geoff Hughes
Nicolaes Tulp
Biography Medical Eponyms Pulsatile spleen (lien verberans) also know as Gerhardt sign (1882); Sailer sign (1928) first described by Tulp in 1641 Nothing in medical art is better known than that the spleen pulsates continuously, if violently moved by the…
CICM SAQ 2013.2 Q11
A 28-year-old male has been involved in a high-speed motor vehicle crash and admitted to your hospital. His initial GCS at the scene was 5 (E2, V2, M1). He has been intubated and has a hard collar in place.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 172
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 172 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Pneumothorax Case 5
A 36 year old woman presents with sharp left sided chest pain.
What do these clips of her left chest show?
Tetraology of Fallot and BT shunts
Despite the therapeutic measures a 26 day-old boy with Tetralogy of Fallot has severe hypercyanotic spells and needs Blalock-Tausig shunt
Future Pathologies
Can contemporary medical economics combat the growing threat of microbes? Have we created sufficient evolutionary pressures that the microbe diseases of yesteryear and the neglected pathogens of today become a threat for us tomorrow?