Adding insult to injury?
Make sure you know the role of the digital rectal examination in the assessment of trauma patients... You don't want to add insult to injury!
Trendelenburg Position for the Hypotensive Patient
The Trendelenburg position is credited to german surgeon Friedrich Trendelenburg, who created the position to improve surgical exposure of the pelvic organs during operations.The Trendelenburg position involves placing the patients head down, and elevating the feet.
Brain eating amoeba?
Sadly, another person has died in Louisiana of Naegleria fowleri. With a fatality rate of 99% (1 of 128 people in US have survived), the fact that they died after contracting the disease is not surprising.
What? I can’t hear you!
Lightning strikes cause an average of 53 deaths per year in the US, killing about 10% of those who are struck. Strikes are well known to cause audiovestibular sequelae. The first reported case of deafness after lightning was in 1879,…
Mastering Intensive Care 034 with Marianne Chapman
Andrew Davies and Mastering Intensive Care Episode 34 with Marianne Chapman - Keeping your focus of expertise purposefully narrow
Lover not a fighter
A distinctly uncommunicative man says he injured his hand in a fall. What is the diagnosis, the mechanism and how will you treat the injury?
Microwave Meltdown
An ambulance crew have radioed through to the emergency department. They are en route with a patient who has sustained a 'microwave injury'…
Why do my hands feel so cold?
Ciguatera, the illness caused by eating foods contaminated by ciguatoxin, can ruin your day, week, or month. The problem starts with Gambierdiscus toxicus, a dinoflagellate that is eaten by small fish.
Letters to the Editor 2.0
Scott Weingart gives an example of why the traditional 'Letter to the Editor' found in medical journals is dead. There is a better way!
Leave the Sim Lab Behind
Jesse Spurr recaps the SMACC Chicago in situ simulation workshop, "Leaving the Sim Lab Behind" (includes recommended resources)
Social Media and Knowledge Translation
Can social media bridge the gap between research and practice? This is the question raised by Paul Young, Chris Nickson and Dash Gantner in this month's edition of Critical Care and Resuscitation.
Lightning Injuries
An expert panel from last year's Wilderness Medical Society Annual Meeting have produced Guidelines for the Treatment and Prevention of Lightning Injuries