New girlfriend
This is a great little piece was written by UK-based emergency medicine registrar Dr Matt Edwards
Motion sickness: A natural remedy
No, I haven’t switched to writing a CAM blog. I’ve covered natural remedies before, simply because that may be all you have at hand in the back country. This isn’t one of those situations. I don’t expect you to pull…
Robert Kienböck
Robert Kienböck (1871-1953) was an Austrian radiologist and pioneer in radiotherapy. Eponymously associated with Kienböck's disease - avascular necrosis of the lunate bone
Kienböck Disease
Kienböck Disease: Avascular necrosis (osteonecrosis) of the lunate leading to abnormal carpal motion. Descriebd 1910 by Robert Kienböck (1871-1953)
Irrigating wounds in the wilderness
I’ve written here before about austere wound care, and one of the important comments I received was “irrigate with water clean enough to drink.” That’s a very valid point, as you don’t want to introduce new pathogens into the wound.…
LITFL Review 352
Welcome to the 352nd LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the web
Don’t drink the water
Well, not unless you filter it first. Don't drink the water. This article discusses the diagnosis and treatment of a rare condition, and pitfalls of an inadequate physical examination.
There’s an app for that
When you’re out in the sticks, you want to travel light. This limits the amount of diagnostic supplies you can carry, and generally wilderness medics trend towards carrying supplies that can do multiple jobs. Thus, necessity being the mother of…
So you’ve pulled off a deer tick
What's the next step? Is it a single dose of 200mg of doxycycline for prevention of Lyme disease, but is it based on solid evidence?
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 257
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia with Dr Moshe Schein's book of aphorisms and Quotations. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 257
St. Crispin’s Day in ED
Ever started a night shift in the emergency department and felt like you were a hapless conscript at Agincourt on St. Crispin's day, about to be run down by an army of charging knights?
How persistent is permethrin?
Malaria and other mosquito-borne infections are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality for many countries, and visitors to those countries are certainly not immune.