Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
Emergency Medicine education blog
A long-term inpatient from a Psychiatric hospital presents to the Emergency Department with gradual onset of abdominal swelling over four weeks and acute generalised abdominal pain over the last 24 hours. Can you spot what might be causing his discomfort?
In an era of 3% health budget cuts and fed up with having to ‘get the butter out’ to lubricate fatter and fatter people through CT scanners, our Emergency Department is introducing new seats for our waiting room.
I, like Croakey from Crikey, have enjoyed some of the Governmental approaches to utilising media strategies to provide health promotion. Unfortunately most of the recent Australian Health campaigns have been a little ‘dry’ and hard to take in so we have to resort to the power of social media to spread the health promotion message [...]
aka Toxicology Conundrum 017 Your next patient is a 26 year-old female who claims to have ingested 40 x citalopram hydrobromide tablets (40mg each) about 3 hours ago. She appears anxious with a heart rate of 95/min. She is alert, orientated and has bilaterally equal 4mm pupils. Further examination is unremarkable. Questions Describe the toxicodynamics [...]
A 48 year old male presents with a 30 minute episode of central chest pain 12 hours ago. His cardiac enzymes are normal. His ECG looks is below. What do you do?
Dislocation of the distal radio-ulna joint (DRUJ) is an extremely rare injury, particularly when it occurs without associated fractures of the distal radius and ulna.
With the combined rebuilding of ‘Life In The Fast Lane’ and our arrival at a new domain I feel refreshed and revitalised…’able to leap tall buildings in a single bound‘ and able to set forth some of the contextual learning principles to which I adhere… However, for now, my ‘inner glow of satisfaction’ must remain [...]
