Pancreatitis
Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas and involves activation of proteolytic enzymes that may progress to haemorrhagic necrosis of the pancreatic parenchyma
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 106
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 106 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Dissociated Oxygen Saturations
What is the explanation for the discrepancy between the oxygen saturations on pulse oximetry and on arterial blood gas analysis in this patient?
Managing the Critical Bleeder!!
What are the definitions used to define "Critical Bleeding" and "Massive Transfusion"?
Recombinant Factor VIIa to the rescue!?
The trauma room has turned into a blood bath. You're going to have to buy new shoes. What should you throw at the patient - the kitchen sink or Factor VII?
Dealing with D-dimer debacles
An intern in the emergency department has been nervously standing behind you for the past ten minutes while you've dealt with a barrage of phone calls. He wants to discuss the positive d-dimer result of the patient he is working up. Y
Paget’s disease of the nipple
Description Paget’s disease of the nipple; disorder of the nipple-areola complex (NAC). Characterised chiefly by eczema like changes, it is a condition associated with underlying cancer of the breast. Clinical signs include: Hardening of the NAC Crusting A lumpy or…
Paget’s disease of bone
Paget's disease of bone is a metabolic disorder of the bone, resulting in deformation and pain. It most commonly affects the axial skeleton; pelvis, lumbo-sacral spine, skull, femur and tibia. Diagnostic imaging is a key part of modern day diagnosis, and many cases are in fact incidental findings.
Improving Oxygenation in ARDS
Refractory hypoxia, leading to dysoxia at the cellular level, can be difficult to manage in severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
Gut under pressure
A patient is day 1 post-laparotomy. his abdomen feels tight and his urine output has dropped off... Can you save the day in this gastrointestinal gutwrencher?
Snookered
You are assessing a 37 year old male in the emergency department. He appears to be in discomfort and states that he fell asleep at a party and thinks ‘someone put something up his back passage while he was out of it’.
Rapid Response Systems
In Australia, a Rapid Response System (RRS) is a hospital-wide system to recognise and respond to the deteriorating patient is a requirement as set out in Standard 9 of the National Safety and Quality Healthcare Standards.