Question 12. A 68 year old man had both legs trapped under a heavy concrete slab for 4 hours. He has just been admitted to the ICU, 8 hours post injury, following adequate resuscitation and definitive operative wound debridement. His…
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 115 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
You are working as a locum doctor in the Northern Territory. Your patient is a 32 year-old Indonesian man who says he was stung while hauling in a net on an offshore fishing vessel.
Case-based question-and-answers on a near fatal box jellyfish sting. Can you save the day?
A 21 year-old sailor placed a small blue and yellow octopus on his shoulder while wading back to shore after spear-fishing with a friend. As he reached the beach he threw the little octopus into the sea
While riding in a boat off the North Queensland coast a 12 year-old boy was struck by a large fish that had catapulted itself out of the water.
Clinical case of a man being stung on the distal palmar surface of his right index finger by his lionfish (Pterois volitans) while cleaning his aquarium.
Toxicological evaluation and treatment of a patient with theophylline toxicity
Little Johnny is an inquisitive 15kg 3 year-old boy. His grandad was looking after him for the evening. About an hour ago, the phone rang just as grandad was about to take his evening warfarin tablets. Although he only turned his back for a second, there was enough time for little Johnny to start ploughing into the tablets...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) = chronic bronchitis +/- emphysema; aka CORD (respiratory) or COAD (airways); environmental factors: tobacco smoke and air pollution
Can have one or both lungs transplanted depending on disease process. Single lung transplants only suitable for non-infective conditions that will not go on to damage new lung, with no cardiac disease
Negative pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE) is a form of noncardiogenic pulmonary edema (PE) that results from the generation of high negative intrathoracic pressure (NIP) needed to overcome upper airway obstruction