Sodium Nitroprusside
Sodium Nitroprusside is a drug used as an infusion to lower blood pressure; used in severe hypertension or perioperatively.
Q&A with Deon Strydom
A woman bleeding to death from an ectopic. No power. The hospital has burnt down. You have a foot pump, a cigarette lighter, and Deon Strydom.
Comms Lab: Breaking Bad News
Comms Lab 41: Breaking Bad News: The Hardest Conversation of All. The SPIKES framework and Dr Rob Buckman
Network Five: Toxicology
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 19 - Toxicology reviewing papers on chemical warfare agents, Clozapine and drug overdose in pregnancy.
Levetiracetam
Levetiracetam (keppra) is a drug used as an anticonvulsant as monotherapy, or an adjunct, and as a Tier 2 agent in status epilepticus.
Desmopressin (DDAVP)
Desmopressin (DDAVP) is a drug used primarily for diabetes insipidus, haemophilia type A, and von Willebrand's disease.
Q&A with Shannon Baso
What's the best antidote to a hangover? Is 3-strikes-and-you're out fair? Why go peripheral? And how do you get a Gold Medal?
Amiodarone and thyroid function
Medmastery: Thyroid Disease Masterclass. The effect of amiodarone on thyroid function
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 345
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 345 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
Thionamides in thyroid disease
Medmastery: Review of the appropriate use of thionamides today, as we continue our journey through the Thyroid Disease Masterclass.
Morell Mackenzie
Biography Key Medical Contributions Quoted by Norman Rupert Barrett (1903-1979) in 1950 for his original work and definition of acute oesophagitis. Acute oesophagitis: Acute idiopathic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the oesophagus giving rise to extreme odynphagia, and often…
Q&A with Warren Adie
Touching a nerve on tribalism, the doughnut sign, life in Alice, gravel rash, beanies and cossack dancing... in pumps.