Medical Reversal
Medical reversal is the phenomenon of a new superior trial arising that contradicts current clinical practice. Many claims that specific treatments have a benefit have turned out not to be true.
Role of the Consultant
A simple question – what is the chief function of the consultant? The answer is probably the same, regardless of what you mean by ‘consultant’. In the anglo-antipodean world ‘consultant’ typically means a doctor who has completed their specialty exams…
Pediatric Anaphylaxis
Pediatric Anaphylaxis overview
Long-term cognitive impairment in Critical Illness
Critical illness is associated with a spectrum of neurological failure (largely under-reported), including polyneuropathy, encephalopathy and long-term cognitive impairment after critical illness (LTCI-CI)
Septic encephalopathy
Septic encephalopathy is brain dysfunction mediated by the septic inflammatory response, independent of other co-existent causes such as liver or renal dysfunction
A Mortal Battle with Four Hour Medicine II
The unexpected collides with 4 hour rule in the natural laboratory for error that is the emergency department… Act II and epilogue
A Mortal Battle with Four Hour Medicine
The unexpected collides with 4 hour rule in the natural laboratory for error that is the emergency department... Act 1: The Existential Installment and Act 2: The Clinical Section...WITH a cliffhanger.
Are you Satisficed?
Review these chest radiographs of an ICU patient with respiratory deterioration. What has been missed? What cognitive bias contributed to the error?
Urine Electrolytes
Urinary anion gap (UAG): Differentiate renal or GIT cause of HYPERchloraemic metabolic disorders; or Normal anion gap metabolic acidosis (NAGMA)
Own the ECMO!
Intensive Care Network and Dr Hergen Buescher present 3 videos on 'owning the ECMO'!
C. H. Joseph Chang
C. H. Joseph Chang (1929 - 2017) was an American radiologist. Chang sign (CXR finding in pulmonary embolus) decribed in 1965
Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt
Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Procedure (TIPS) involves accessing the internal jugular vein and IVC to place a stent between the hepatic and portal veins using a needle