aka Postcards from the Edge 009 This ‘Postcard from the Edge’ highlights a talk given by Dr Chris Curry at ACEM2011 conference in Sydney. Chris discusses the development of emergency medicine training in LDCs (Least Developed Countries), using the examples…
When someone is lost in the woods, it often becomes the responsibility of the search and rescue teams to find them. It’s not a simple as one may think, however. The grid lines they follow need to be designed to…
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 258
Annual Emergency Medicine and Critical Care blogs database update with analysis of the the trends in asynchronous medical education
The aims of ultrasound guided assessment of pleural effusion are: Understanding pleural effusion The thoracic cage “unfolded”. The patient is sitting and there is a small pleural effusion on the left (right lung) and a large one on the right…
Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning seeks to explain the processes that take place in the minds of learners during meaningful learning from multimedia instruction
Cognitive rigidity, or fixation, is holding onto initial explanations despite the subsequent accumulation of contrary evidence (Klein, 2011)
It’s a busy night shift in the ED (as always) and one of the Interns comes to present a case to you. He’s seen a 23 yr old female who has presented with lethargy and weakness. While you're listening to the Intern your phone rings — it's the lab calling to tell you the patient’s potassium is 1.9 mmol/L.
A 20 year old male presents with 3 days of lethargy and generalised malaise. He is confused and looks very unwell. Can sort out this metabolic muddle?
You are asked to review a 73 year old lady who is in hospital for treatment of septic arthritis affecting a prosthetic right hip joint inserted 5 years earlier.
An 87 year old female presented with a subarachnoid haemorrhage. GCS 8/15. Can you figure out her acid-base disturbance?
A 50 year old Chinese female presents with severe weakness. She has a history of previous similar episodes that self-resolved. What's going on?