Budd–Chiari syndrome
Budd–Chiari syndrome. Hepatic venous outflow obstruction causing portal hypertension. George Budd (1808 - 1882) and Hans Chiari (1851 - 1916)
Ultrasound Case 001
42 year old diabetic woman with left sided pleuritic chest pain. Mild fever and cough. Describe and interpret these scans
Are Redheads Bleeders?
I first became aware that redheads were treated differently in medicine when I started hanging around anaesthetists.
Libman-Sacks endocarditis
Libman-Sacks endocarditis, characterized by sterile, verrucous valvular lesions (Libman-Sacks vegetations) with a predisposition for the mitral and aortic valves.
Does Antivenom Work?
Antivenom is widely used for Australian envenoming syndromes. Antivenoms are generally perceived, by both clinicians and the general public, as highly effective treatments. However, there is little evidence to support this widely held view, in fact, the weight of evidence suggests that some antivenoms are ineffective in clinical practice.
Is Twitter the essential Blogging nutrient?
Prompted by a series of conversational musings and twitterings the concept of a 'blogging ecosystem' became apparent. With the 'blogging host' as the primary producer and 'blog posts' as distribution seeds - I went in search of the other energy sources necessary to create a fit, healthy and viable blog.
FOAM EMCC Blogs 2012
130 blogs and podcasts covering 17 countries and numerous languages - we assess the global impact of emergency medicine and critical care #FOAM initiative
Lung Ultrasound: Comprehensive Examination
Comprehensive lung ultrasound examination involves the following steps: Thorough clinical assessment with integration of history, clinical findings and other investigations. This enables formulation of a differential diagnosis and allows more accurate interpretation of the ultrasound findings. Ultrasound examination of all…
Ultrasound Case 004
A 22 year old male presents 1 week post football injury to his left upper quadrant. He complains of abdominal pain, presyncope on standing and is pale and tachycardic although maintaining a normal blood pressure.
Ultrasound Case 003
72 year old man with a history of mesothelioma presents with increasing shortness of breath.
Ultrasound Case 002
35 year old male represents with shortness of breath 5 days after falling of his bicycle. His initial chest xray on day one had shown a tiny pneumothorax and several rib fractures.
Cognitive load theory
Cognitive load theory (CLT) is a theory of instructional design based on an experimentally derived model of cognitive architecture and focuses on the ease with which novel information is processed by working memory, which has limited capacity