Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Carried out in a pressurised chamber (single or multiple patients). Treatments typically between 2 and 3 ATA
Cryptogenic Organising Pneumonia
Cryptogenic Organising Pneumonia (COP) is also known as bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia (BOOP); not the same as bronchiolitis obliterans; the rapidly progressive form has a very poor prognosis
Koplik Spots
Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History 1778 – John Quier 1785 – JA Murray 1854 – Reubold 1871 – Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt (1833-1902) 1877 – Bohn 1880 – Nikolaj Flindt (1843-1913) 1897 – Nicolai Feodorowitsch…
Henry Koplik
Henry Koplik (1858 – 1927) was an American pediatrician. Eponymously affiliated with Koplik spots of measles first described in 1896
Sepsis Overview
The LITFL Critical Care Compendium (CCC) has numerous entries on sepsis, this page collates them
Approach to Acute Poisoning
The patient's form a heterogeneous group that requires a systematic approach based on early resuscitation where needed, risk assessment to guide further management and early consideration of the underlying psychosocial issues.
Ultrasound Case 070
A 30 year old man describes hearing and feeling a snap on the right side of his penis during intercourse. He developed sudden severe pain, rapid detumescence, and then swelling and bruising to the right side of the penile shaft.
Acute Kidney Injury
AKI is the entire spectrum of disease (mild -> severe), and can be defined as an abrupt (1 to 7 days) and sustained (more than 24 hours) decrease in kidney function. Mortality of critically patients with acute renal failure is high (50%–60%)
Renal Disease Biomarkers
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common problem in the critically ill associated with increased morbidity and mortality
RIFLE Criteria and AKIN Classification
AKI can be defined as an abrupt (1 to 7 days) and sustained (more than 24 hours) decrease in kidney function. The ADQI formulated the RIFLE criteria in 2004 to allow for AKI to be objectively and uniformly defined.
Renal Transplant Patient
Renal Transplant; commonest transplant; anastamosed to common iliac artery and vein in the pelvis. the ureter is plumbed into the bladder; allows ease of access for palpation and biopsy
APACHE versus SOFA scoring systems
APACHE = Acute Physiology, Age and Chronic Health Evaluation (I-IV); SOFA = Sequential Organ Failure Assessment