An abrasive satirical look at the worst occupations to hold if you’re an Emergency Department patient!
What the Elderly should say…
May 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Management of the elderly trauma patient poses some of the biggest clinical challenges we face in the emergency department. With age comes a host of complex management issues unknown in the young and previously healthy. If only elderly patients could point out the pitfalls to us – here is what they would say…
Trendelenburg Position for the Hypotensive Patient
May 14, 2010 By 3 Comments
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 013
May 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia including vitellus, Dum Dum, William Boog, Will Rogers, crack and alveolar haemorrhage
AMSA Hobart conference 2010
May 13, 2010 By 1 Comment
AMSA Convention this year has proven more popular than ever! The registration system processed the first 800 in under 5 minutes, selling out in 4 minutes and 2 seconds. However some partial registrations have just been released.
Nasal foreign body, ketamine and laryngospasm
May 11, 2010 By 6 Comments
A case-based Q-and-A on procedural sedation using ketamine to remove a button battery from a child’s nose. What would you do? What if laryngospasm occurs?
Free Medical Board Review Study Guides
May 10, 2010 By 1 Comment
Always love a useful medical resource that is free! The Castle Connolly Graduate Medical Publishing (CCGMP) have released its full list of 14 medical board review manuals – for FREE. They are now available online at no charge for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, medical and nursing students and other medical professionals through the publisher’s [...]
Fear and Vaccines in Western Australia
May 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A clinician’s view of the spate of adverse reactions to the flu vaccine in Western Australia that led to all vaccinations in those aged <5 years being ceased.
Emergency marketing in just 4 hours!
May 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Selling patients is sad reality of life as an emergency doctor, will things be worse when the four hour rule is adopted Australia wide?
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 012
May 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Challenge your addled brain with with some good old fashioned medical trivia. Leeches, Stellwag, Dalrymple, bleeding cattle and parasomnic derrivation
