A 78 year old man is brought to your emergency department after collapsing at the local shopping centre that morning. He is now alert with no memory of the event. His observations are normal.
Quiz Clinical Image 002
September 28, 2009 By
A 47 year old man presents to your emergency department with a two day history of a painful rash on the back of his neck.
Quiz ECG 007
September 28, 2009 By
A 50 year old man presents with shortness of breath and sharp central chest pain of 24 hours duration. He has no past medical history and is on no medication.
Quiz Paediatrics 002
September 28, 2009 By
An 8 year old boy is brought by his parents to your emergency department 20 minutes after a motor vehicle accident in which he was a restrained rear seat passenger.
Quiz Clinical Image 001
September 28, 2009 By
A 65 year old man is brought to your emergency department. He was starting a fire in his fireplace when his clothes caught on fire.
Quiz Radiology 005
September 28, 2009 By
A 45 year old man is brought to your emergency department with severe pain in his right hip after a fall from his bicycle an hour earlier. He has no other obvious injuries.
Quiz ECG 006
September 28, 2009 By
An 82 year old man is brought to your emergency department after having been found on the floor of his home. He was last seen by his neighbor 18 hours earlier.
The Library and the Ecosystem
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This collation of blogging excellence pulls together commentary on medical informatics in all its forms from across the blogging ecosystem.
Where are the lemons?
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Observe these images of a urine catheter bag belonging to a patient with a cerebral abscess. What is unusual about the appearance of the urine?
Fascinella #001
September 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Escherichia blattae A close relative of common-or-garden bacterium Escherichia coli (E.coli), first found in the hindgut of the oriental cockroach, Blatta orientalis. E.blattae is as rare as E.coli is common; an oddity still looking for a role in any kind of infectious disease. Its main significance is that is was the second bacterial species added to [...]
