Want an antidote to the growing pessimism about the impending ‘swine flu’ pandemic?
Brilliantly fighting infection
May 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Emergency Medicine Web Resources
May 5, 2009 By 1 Comment
The time-poor ED physician, faced with an ever increasing patient load, is finding it difficult to keep up to date with the expansive proliferation of clinical knowledge and more worryingly the presumption of technological competence. The concept of using a locally derived, living database of clinical and other teaching material connected to a user-friendly web-based [...]
What do you mean pandemic?
May 4, 2009 By 1 Comment
Despite the cessation of ‘pig kissing frolicks’ it looks as though the WHO will eventually declare that 2009 H1N1 influenza A (‘swine flu’) has reached pandemic proportions (phase 6).
Irukandji in the Northern Territory
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FACEM Fellowship Glossary of Terms
May 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The following definitions are intended as a guide to the understanding of terms commonly used in papers. It is always important to read a question carefully, and to understand these terms in the context of that question. The Fellowship Examination Committee and the examiners are instructed to be rigorous in the use of these terms. [...]
The Stethoscope Song
May 3, 2009 By 1 Comment
‘The Stethoscope Song’ is a poem written in 1848 by American physician, essayist, and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes. There was a young man in Boston town, He bought him a stethoscope nice and new, All mounted and finished and polished down, With an ivory cap and a stopper too. It happened a spider within did [...]
Theophylline overdose
May 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
Toxicological evaluation and treatment of a patient with theophylline toxicity
FACEM VAQ 2009.1 Examiners Report
May 1, 2009 By
Quiz Radiology 002
May 1, 2009 By
An 89 year old woman presents to your Emergency Department with a two week history of several falls and new right sided weakness…Describe and interpret her CT scan
Quiz ECG 002
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A 35 year old man is brought to your Emergency Department following two seizures….Describe and interpret his ECG
