Pediatric Perplexity 005

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A toddler’s respiratory distress is getting worse. He is wheezy but not responsive to bronchodilators. Could Swedish furniture be the cause?

Not Backwards in going Backwards

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The newly formed Southern Hemisphere Information Technology ’4 brains’ group have covertly implemented a series of strategies within Australian hospitals which they are confident will coagulate productivity to a state of suppuration.

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Group Showers

Feeling a bit wound-up…feeling a bit frazzled by Friday? Why not relax and unwind with some medical trivia…This week we celebrate vitamin D treatment with an exploration of pithiatism, Satchmo syndrome, emunction and leprosy

Radiological Pin-Up Calendar

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EIZO medical imaging produce high precision displays for the examination and diagnosis of radiographs. They recently collaborated with German advertising agency BUTTER to produce a ‘What you see is what you get’ 2010 Pin-Up calendar leaving little to the imagination…

Little White Slips of Inspiration

Little White Slips

I always seem to be in a mad rush to remove myself from the actively doing zone to enter the inactively waiting zone or the intemperate between things zone. These rapid inter-zonal oscillations appear to exemplify my semblance of adrenaline driven efficiency…when in fact, they are anything but…

Crazy Bug Hunter 007

Anton Breinl

Anton Breinl led expeditions to Brazil and survived yellow fever. He had also survived an accidental infection with trypanosomes, using an experimental medication to treat himself and thus securing a place among that small group of CBHs who have used themselves as laboratory animals.

Sick, Shocked and Sunburned?

A 15 year-old female with fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, whole body ‘sunburn’ and hypotension. It’s over to you…

The Patients we Love to Treat

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The Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine has endorsed three new instructional training videos to assist in the management of common Waiting Room presentations.

Time to tighten those sphincters!

A 2 year-old boy requires intubation to manage his acutely obstructed airway. He is going downhill fast. What are you going to do?

Patellar Tendon Rupture

The rupture of the patellar tendon is uncommon, and often occurs in long-standing patellar tendon irritation.