Quantitative Data Types and Tests
Quantitative data is that which can be expressed numerically and is associated with a measurement scale; not all numbers constitute quantitative data (e.g. tax file number!)
Calcium basics
Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body. 1.5% of body weight; 99% is in bone matrix; 1100gramm (27mmol)
Factor VIIa
Tissue factor + VIIa + platelets -> platelet aggregation -> production of platelet-fibrin matrix -> haemostasis; used in massive transfusion senario’s to attempt to control intractable haemorrhage
Marshall Hall
Marshall Hall (1790-1857) was an English physician, physiologist and humanitarian
Oxygen saturation targets in critical care
Oxygen saturation targets in critical illness. Both the extremes of hypoxaemia and hyperoxia have the potential to harm critically ill patients and worsen their outcomes
Burns, Oxygenation and Ventilation
Burns can affect 4 anatomic areas of the respiratory tract:: Supraglottal; tracheobronchial;
pulmonary parenchymal; and chest/abdominal wall
Stress Induced Hyperglycaemia
Stress Induced Hyperglycaemia (SIH) is transient hyperglycaemia associated with acute illness
resolves with resolution of the underlying critical illness
Ultrasound Case 076
A 53 year old woman presents with abdominal pain. She has had recurrent bowel obstructions and left this 24 hours before presenting hoping it would settle. You scan her abdomen.
Adenosine
Adenosine: short acting anti-arrhythmic; naturally occurring purine nucleoside. Epression of SA & AV nodal activity; antagonises cAMP-mediated catecholamine stimulation of ventricular muscle
CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q19
Questions 19.1. To evaluate a new biomarker as an early index of infected pancreatic necrosis, you perform the measurement in a consecutive series of 200 critically ill patients with pancreatitis. You find that 100 of these patients had subsequently proven…
CICM SAQ 2015.1 Q5
You are supervising a registrar who suffers a needle stick injury during the insertion of a central line in a patient with a history of intravenous drug use. Outline your approach to this problem.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 116
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 116 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.