UCEM’s neurologists unveil the biological basis for the character divide between surgeons and anaesthetists. These functional neuroanatomical maps reveal all.
The Future of Anticoagulation
June 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Generally anticoagulation treatment has been focused on an initial parental anticoagulation and then extended therapy by oral anticoagulation. Drugs which block the thrombin process have been the mainstay of treatment programmes.
A Gobbet O’ Pus
June 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Sight for sore eyes in ICU?
June 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
Imagine you are awakening from a prolonged slumber in the intensive care unit. Amid the glare of the overhead lights emerges this ghostly image of a strange levitating entity at the end of your bed…
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 017
June 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Feeling a bit wound-up…feeling a bit frazzled by Friday? Why not relax and unwind with some medical trivia…the Queen’s upcoming birthdays; explore nihilism; determine the best way to kill a buffalo and interrogate ornithological anatomy
Society for the Prevention of Surgery
June 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
UCEM investigators have unearthed a shadowy organization known as the Society for the Prevention of Surgery. Prof Staghorn shows how to identify its members.
You say goodbye, I say hello…
June 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
While Western Australia leads the Australian charge towards embracing the four-hour rule, it looks like our Pommie predecessors are going to scrap it.
Nail Gun Injuries
June 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Mr Ivor Plank attended the Emergency Department on the weekend having developed a painfully strong bond with an expensive piece of skirting board…Clinical review of nail gun injuries presenting to emergency departments and the management of penetrating nail injury.
High Altitude Illness
June 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Environmental Enigma: One of your colleagues tells you he is going to climb Mt Kilimanjaro next month. He has never been to altitude before and asks you how he can prevent altitude sickness while on his trek…
Emergency in the Shed
June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Emergency in the shed a weekly Podcast of news,views, and interviews for emergency nurses by emergency nurses from the Gold Coast Hospital (Australia)
