Little Wound, Long Knife
A man has been stabbed near his right clavicle. Is his chest x-ray normal? What needs to be done?
Brown recluse bites
Last October, a report of death by loxoscelism was reported in Annals. It’s a sad story about a previously healthy 3 year old girl who was bitten by a witnessed brown recluse in Tennessee. She went to a rural ED,…
Trauma! Genitourinary Injuries
A Q&A overview of the assessment and management of a sometimes neglected area of major trauma: genitourinary injuries.
Ice vs chemical cold packs
Heat illness needs fast treatment, and to accomplish this many EMS agencies carry chemical cold packs. These are convenient in that they have long shelf lives, don’t require cold storage, and don’t leak or drip fluids. According to this article,…
Jellybean 099 with Prof Michael Pinsky
Professor Michael Pinsky. Giant of North American and International Intensive Care research and practice. Jellybean 99 and CICMxJB 7
Trauma! Abdominal Injuries
A Q&A overview of abdominal injuries resulting from major trauma. Can you recognise and manage the common and important abdominal organ injuries in the ED?
Afterdrop
Snow burial is often used experimentally to simulate avalanche burials. In this paper, they used snow burial to allow measurement of core temperature cooling and afterdrop. The authors were attempting to compare the afterdrop rate of patients who were immediately…
Stokes-Adams syndrome
Stokes-Adams syndrome is an abrupt, transient loss of consciousness due to a sudden but pronounced decrease in the cardiac output
John Cheyne
John Cheyne (1777 – 1836) was a Scottish surgeon and physician. Eponymously affiliated with Cheyne-Stokes Respiration (1818)
Trauma! Assessing the Abdomen
A Q&A approach to the assessment of abdominal trauma with a focus on the role the FAST scan, diagnostic peritoneal lavage and the CT abomen.
Cheyne-Stokes respiration
Description Cheyne-Stokes respiration History 1818 – John Cheyne 1854 – William Stokes 1953 – On March 4th 1953, the Soviet press announced that Joseph Stalin was ill and had ‘Cheyne-Stokes respiration‘. The following day he died. Associated Persons References Original…
Adolph Kussmaul
Adolph Kussmaul (Adolf Kußmaul) (1822 – 1902) was a German physician. Eponym Kussmaul breathing in Diabetic ketoacidosis (1874)