Postpartum Emergencies

Pregnancy 2

Highlights from EB Medicine’s Emergency Medicine Practice August 2010 article: ‘Postpartum Emergencies: Headache, Hypertension, Eclampsia, and Cardiomyopathy’.

Two Types of People

There are two types people – those who make good emergency docs, and those who don’t. Or maybe not…

Antibiotic Therapeutic Guidelines Update 2010

Antibiotic Guidelines

The latest version of the New 2010 Antibiotic guidelines is an essential guide for the appropriate management of patients with infectious diseases in both general practice and hospital settings. All sections have been extensively reviewed and updated by a panel of experts, incorporating the latest evidence with a focus on clinical application.

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 024

science

Funtabulously, Frivolous Friday Five…Köllner’s Rule, angina, syanache, optic neuritis, sirvanke

Emergency Care Information Gateway

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Emergency Care information Gateway is a website developed through the National Health and Medical Research Council to support the exchange of resources and sharing of ideas that will promote improved emergency care

Alarmingly high pressures…

PIP versus Pplat

A mechanically ventilated patient has high peak inspiratory pressures. You need to silence that incessant the alarm… What are you going to do?

Trauma and Pregnancy Redux

Pregnancy 2

One of the patients seriously injured in a multi-vehicle pile up is pregnant. What are the implications for radiological imaging and decision-making in trauma management?

Lost in Translation

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Whether it is interpreting a physicians handwriting, transcribing the muffled rants of the dictating clinician or battling the auto-correct function of microsoft word…meaning can sometimes be lost in translation…

XtraNormal Gold

Some more XtraNormal gold…with Obstetrics vs Anaesthesia and Dr Cardigan meets the manager

Trauma and Pregnancy

Pregnancy 1

One of the patients seriously injured in a multi-vehicle pile up is pregnant. What are the implications for trauma management?