CXR Case 010
80 year old female presents with palpitations. She has been more breathless recently and has been taking her inhalers more frequently. Describe and interpret this CXR
The Art of Medicine or the Medicolegal minefield
When Hippocrates started tutoring the first medical students on the steps of the Acropolis back in Ancient Greece, the art of medicine was born and the gradual understanding of disease processes and healing could really begin. It really goes without…
Saving Lives, One Online Module at a Time
I’m not sure how we ever used to manage multi-traumas. We must have been frightfully underprepared. Back in the days before mandatory training we relied, rather guilelessly, on experience, a suite of knowledge from texts and journals and M &…
CXR Case 009
78 year old female current smoker presents with wheeze, productive cough and breathlessness worsening over 6 days. Describe and interpret this CXR
CXR Case 008
40 year old male presents to emergency in severe respiratory distress and is intubated on arrival. Describe and interpret this CXR
Is Social Media the Rock’n’Roll of HealthCare?
Social (digital) Media is expanding at an unerring rate, penetrating each and every darkened interstice with shafts of sharing light and goodwill....At least that's how it seems.
Do you use Web 2.0 in clinical decision making?
Are Web 2.0 and social media really useful in clinical decision making? How do you use them? Leave a comment and share your story now!
Web 2.0 for Emergency Physicians
Web 2.0 in Emergency Medicine: Specialty Embracing the Future of Medical Communication
Physician Social and Professional Networks
Physicians are a strange bunch at the best of times. Medicine 2.0 applications, services and tools are Web-based services for health care
The times they are a changing
With the era of Generation Y doctors; open source publishing; micro-blogging; stumbling and tweeting now upon us it is important to review the potential implications of the internet age on emergency medicine.
CXR Case 007
45 year old male presents confused and hypoxaemic Describe and interpret this CXR
Information overload
How can emergency and critical care physicians deal with information overload? Here is one answer...