Asking Questions – Delivering Answers
RCTs deliver the most reliable evidence to guide how we treat our patients but they are badly designed, inaccurately reported and misunderstood. We can do better.
ECG Case 128
There are five features on this "normal" ECG that suggest impending inferior STEMI - can you spot them?
Rare Life-Threatening Emergencies
Rare Life-Threatening Emergencies; Publication Deficits & Potential Solutions with Laura Duggan
James Israel
James Adolf Israël (1848 - 1926) was a German surgeon. Eponyms: Actinomyces israelii, Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign
B. Raymond Fink
B. Raymond Fink (1914 – 2000) was an American anesthesiologist. Fink effect (1955): diffusion anoxia/hypoxia or the third gas effect; Fink Laryngoscope Blade (1958); Fink Non-rebreathing Valve (1954)
J.S. Dunbar
Biography Born in 1921 in Barrie, Canada (possibly August 16, 1920) 1945 – MD from the University of Toronto school of medicine 1945-1948 rotating internship at the Toronto General Hospital, with surgical internship at the Queen Mary Veterans’ Hospital in…
Surviving the Aftermath of ECMO
ECMO is a life-saving intervention for critically ill patients, but patients describe a recovery period that can take months to years.
Paediatric virtual reality
VR in paediatrics procedures. Those of us looking after kids know that making confronting situations better for those kids is one our biggest challenges.
ECG Case 127
Can ST depression and T wave inversion in aVL be normal? Can BER cause reciprocal changes? Learn about using the QRS-T wave angle to answer these questions
REBEL vs SKEPTIC
Critical care controversies: Salim Rezaie (REBELEM) and Ken Milne (SGEM) go toe-to-toe debating some hot topics in critical care.
Gordon Jackson Rees
Gordon Jackson Rees (1918 – 2001) was a British anaesthetist. He laid down the foundations for paediatric anaesthesia. Jackson Rees T-Piece, circuit and T-tube
Wallenberg Syndrome
Wallenberg Syndrome: neurological disorder with a variety of symptoms associated with posterior circulation ischaemic stroke. [AKA lateral medullary syndrome or posterior inferior cerebellar artery syndrome]