Pulmonary Re-expansion
A 45 year old woman with metastatic ovarian cancer is admitted for VATS pleurodesis and drainage of bilateral pleural effusions.
Cannon Balls
A 26 year-old male, with no previous history of seizures, was BIBA with status epilepticus. He was intubated to facilitate seizure management
Troubling Lab Strife
aka Oncological Quandary 002 A 30 year-old woman presents with abdominal pain and paraesthesiae. She was diagnosed with CML 2 months previously, and was treated with chemotherapy a month prior to presentation. These are her lab results: Questions Q1. Describe…
From the Hip
Consider a 16 year old who presents with a 3 week history of severe hip pain followed by increasing breathlessness and left sided chest pain. His admission chest X-ray is shown below:
Operation
William Ernest Henley's life as a child and young man was ravaged by the disease John Bunyan called the 'captain of all these men of Death'
Base jumping and wingsuits
BASE jumping. Yet another one of the "extreme sports" that has come to the forefront by increases in technology combined with the human desire to do new things.
A Surprising FEAST
What if someone told you this: Fluid boluses significantly increased 48-hour mortality in critically ill children with impaired perfusion"
Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra
Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann, Ritter von Hebra (1816-1880) was an Austrian physician and dermatologist. Founder New Vienna School of Dermatology
Own the Oxylog
If you're a doc or nurse in Australasia and you take care of critically ill patients chances are you should be familiar with the Oxylog 3000.
To thoracotomy, or not to thoracotomy?
A chest trauma patient lies before you. When would you perform an emergency thoracotomy? A case-based Q&A approach to the indications and contraindications.
Own the FEAST
We recently featured a video on what could turn out to be the emergency medicine/ critical care 'Trial of the Year'... That's right, the FEAST Trial:
Does Roc rock? Does Sux suck?
So, what are you gonna use for this rapid sequence intubation --- roc or sux? Can you answer the hard questions to determine once and for all, whether roc rocks and sux sucks or if it should be the other way around?