Don’t believe what you read on the internet
Many of us in the medical field are aware of patients coming to us with medical “facts” that they have obtained on the internet that are at best misleading, and at worst incredibly dangerous.
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 060 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 061 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Ultrasound Case 024
41 year old female with a history of liver cirrhosis and ascites. She is anticoagulated for Budd-Chiari syndrome and presents with hypotension and right lower quadrant pain.
Fever in the returning traveler
The patient who returns from vacation with a fever is often a diagnostic dilemma. Unfortunately, up to 1 in 5 travelers to the developing world will get one within a few weeks of their trip. So how do you come up with a logical, evidence based diagnostic workup for a fever of unknown origin?
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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…
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 056 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 057 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
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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?