18 year old man day 7 in ICU after jumping from a building. Tracheostomy performed the day before. Acute respiratory distress with inability to pass a suction catheter through the tracheostomy tube.
Roast duck and juniper beer
November 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Consider a 73 year old female admitted with vomiting and subsequent chest pain. This is her admission chest X-ray.
Look on the Bright Side
November 27, 2009 By 3 Comments
Having a toothpick fish (the Candiru) take a detour up your urethra doesn’t really bear thinking about. The idea of maggots crawling around under your skin sickens you. It is true, humans are afflicted by some pretty nasty parasites. At we can least be thankful for bacon.
But things could be much, much worse.
Learning CPR with your iphone
November 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Fellows of the UCEM embrace WHORe model
November 26, 2009 By 1 Comment
It may be idealistic, but the UCEM firmly believes that in the future the management of emergency patients should be outsourced and entirely orchestrated from offshore. Hands-off-medicine, teleconferencing, the iPhone and video assisted robotic technology (VART) will assist in the management of critically ill patients within the waiting room.
Action at a Distance
November 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
“Action at a distance” is a phrase synonymous with flight-deck control physicians practicing the hands-free model of patient examination and management. Whilst cruising the interweb for evidential examples of such medical practitioners, I was lucky enough to happen upon an evolutionary tool – the Kymera Magic WAND
Meningococcal menigitis
November 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Consider a 21 year-old presenting to the emergency department with fevers and agitation.
His lumbar puncture results are shown below:
What On Earth’s Wrong With Placebos ?
November 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’m a big fan of TED and strongly suggest you subscribe to their video podcasts if you don’t already. Rory Sutherland is an advertising whizz. He argues that adding intangible or perceived value to things we already have is perhaps no bad thing and perhaps may be the only alternative to a world of unsustainable consumerism.
Letting Go
November 25, 2009 By 2 Comments
