Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 058
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 058 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Ultrasound Case 023
An 11 year old boy is hit with a cricket ball mid sternum and is very tender. Your resident does an ultrasound and is concerned they can see a fracture.
Drowning and Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Today’s paper is from the lovely EM residencies affiliated with Harvard. They wrote up a case report of a patient that was injured while boating, resulting in drowning. First, let’s get one thing clear. There is no clinical entity known…
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 056
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 056 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 057
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 057 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 260
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with a MOVEMBER FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 260.
Ultrasound Case 022
An elderly man with a history of hypertension is brought into hospital after several days of reduced oral intake. He is hypotensive and your junior doctor wants to start inotropic support for presumed sepsis. An abbreviated bedside echo is performed. What would you suggest as optimal therapy?
Does that avalanche airbag really help?
Avalanche airbags, which were invented to prevent this “critical burial” that causes increased mortality (critical meaning impairment of airways). They do this by basically making you much larger and more buoyant by inflating a large balloon that is strapped to your back. At least, that’s the theory.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 054
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 054 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 055
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF, introducing the Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 055 Question 1 atients with which disorder,…
Ultrasound Case 021
A 58 year old lycra clad cyclist presents after a fall from his bicycle. He describes localised pain in his left midaxillary line which is worse with movement and inspiration. Is there a rib fracture?
Ultrasound Case 020
Presentation A 27 year old male presents after a motor vehicle accident, He has focal tenderness over his sternum which is worse with movement and deep inspiration. Ultrasound excludes large pneumothorax but you wonder whether you can see a sternal…