Ucem are proud to announce a new technique for the management of constipation in the emergency department. We like to call it ‘hemicorporeal evacuation’.
Serotonin toxicity
February 5, 2010 By 1 Comment
Emergency Musical Interlude XVII
February 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Emergency Musical Interlude Series ground to a halt late last year due to the lack of high quality medically related music videos in production on the web. I feel your disappointment. But fear no more, take a deep breath sit back and relax, safe in the knowledge that we are still capable of finding some of the most obscure and disturbing medical music on the interweb…
Toxic Seizures
February 4, 2010 By 3 Comments
A Fondness of Fruit
February 3, 2010 By 5 Comments
Most of us, at one time or another, have gazed into the stratosphere and imagined clouds as familiar objects such as an animal, a face, an activity or letter of the alphabet. Such nephelococcygial activity has never resulted in my conversing with cirrus formations, no matter how alluring the Wolkenkuckucksheim may appear…
Downstairs Patients, Upstairs!
February 3, 2010 By 2 Comments
Oncology Quandary 004
February 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A 45 year old woman with metastatic ovarian cancer is admitted for VATS pleurodesis and drainage of bilateral pleural effusions. Her admission chest X-ray is shown below:
UCEM to Save the NHS
February 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
Egerton Y. Davis IV, Head of UCEM’s Demographically Impartial Public & Social Health Improvement Taskforce, made an important announcement today. Davis said that his team have been allocated the task of saving Britain’s National Health Service.
Pyroglutamic acidosis
February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
You are asked to review a 73 year old lady who is in hospital for treatment of septic arthritis affecting a prosthetic right hip joint inserted 5 years earlier. The joint has been washed out and debrided twice, and she is receiving IV flucloxacillin and meropenem following culture of a methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus. She is on regular paracetamol for pain. Unfortunately, she has continued to deteriorate…
Lessons from our past
February 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
Cadogan had suffered from gout for many years, and the book is based upon his personal observations. He believed that gout was not hereditary, seasonal, or curable, but was due to over eating, indolence, vexation, and intemperance.
