Thoracostomy Tube Insertion
In this episode of our emergency and critical care procedures series we take a look at how to insert a tube thoracostomy.
UCEM Relocates
The UCEM have relocated from Swarmington-on-the-Wold to the more picturesque setting of Enlightenment Boulevard thanks to the generosity of it's fondling members
Interview with the UCEM President
Today the UCEM released the first in a series of interviews by Hilda Lutenblag with Sir Hubert Ignatius Thompson the Third
Supremus Totus Vindicatum Haud Officium
MUPPET Mastermind and the UCEM principal motto...Supremus Totus Vindicatum Haud Officium - above all, take no responsibility
Dyshopia mathematica
The Crumbling Fabric of Society Gets a Scorecard. Emergency departments are collapsing, buckling over like weary gravity into an event horizon.
Monteggia fracture
Monteggia fracture. Fracture of the proximal or middle third of the ulna with associated radial head dislocation/instability. GB Monteggia 1812
José Luis Bado
José Luis Bado (1903 – 1977) was a Uruguayan surgeon. Eponymously linked to the Bado classification of Monteggia fractures.
Riccardo Galeazzi
Riccardo Galeazzi (1866-1952) was a pioneering Italian orthopaedic surgeon. The eponymous Galeazzi fracture is named after him.
Giovanni Battista Monteggia
Giovanni Battista Montéggia (1762-1815) was an Italian surgeon. Eponym: Monteggia fracture (1812) ulna fracture, radial head dislocation
CT Case 088
A 42-year-old male has a collapse while at work. He has a GCS of 3 on arrival of the paramedics and is intubated on scene.
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943) revolutionized medicine with the discovery of blood groups and the Rh factor, laying the foundation for modern transfusion and immunology.
Neuroimaging Cases 006
Subarachnoid haemorrhage. Neuroimaging case series. Images, text and cases collated by Teresa Crow MD (Emergency Medicine) and L. Erin Miller MD (Neurosurgery)