Eyes are filled with fluid. This means they are the perfect organ for ultrasound assessment in the emergency department. Think you know all about ocular ultrasound? Let’s find out…
Condom Inhalation
July 24, 2010 By View Comments
With the Flu season upon us the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine (UCEM) would like to remind all fondling members of their duty to take a full and appropriate past medical history. This includes a past sexual history…
Bone and Joint Bamboozler 004
July 15, 2010 By View Comments
A 27 year-old amateur martial artist needs your help after smashing his fist through a plank of wood. Can you diagnose and manage his injury?
Bone and Joint Bamboozler 003
July 14, 2010 By View Comments
A 50 year-old woman took a tumble down some steps and injured her left wrist. Can you correctly diagnose and manage her injury?
Fever in a spinal patient
July 12, 2010 By View Comments
A woman had a spinal injury from a car crash at 2 years of age; she since had spinal surgery and has a baclofen pump. Now she has a fever – what’s the cause?
CT Safety and Radiation Risk
June 24, 2010 By View Comments
Radiological Pin-Up Calendar
June 18, 2010 By View Comments
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…
More Loathing in WA
May 18, 2010 By View Comments
Western Australia’s radiology image viewing system is making many doctors unhappy. Stress reduction kit provided.
Radiological Oddity #019
April 27, 2010 By View Comments
There is something strange about this chest radiograph of a neonate who has just arrived in ICU from the operating theatre. What is the oddity and what are the implications?
Search Satisficing and Premature Closure
April 26, 2010 By View Comments
At handover in ICU a junior resident mentions that an intubated and ventilated 68 year-old man 3 days post-cardiac surgery has developed an increasing FiO2 requirement. He says this is explained by a new left lower zone opacity on the patient’s chest radiograph. He has been placed on appropriate antibiotics to cover a hospital acquired pneumonia. You review the films… What has been missed? What cognitive bias contributed to the error?
Something’s not right…
March 4, 2010 By View Comments
A benign clinical history leads to an unusual chest radiograph finding and questions regarding its significance.
Prof Staghorn joins UCEM
February 23, 2010 By View Comments
Professor Inglebert Struvite Staghorn hails from the village of Calyxia nestled on the anaconda-infested shores of the Amazon River. Although the young Staghorn’s missionary parents encouraged him to study the healing arts, he instead discovered a taste for the art of no-holds-barred fighting…
Clinical Images Online
February 22, 2010 By View Comments
An index of useful clinical image collections for use primarily by doctors in emergency medicine and intensive care medicine. Includes clinical photographs, dermatology, ophthalmology, radiology, ultrasonography, pathology and microbiology.
Pulmonary Puzzle 006
January 4, 2010 By View Comments
A 36 year-old immunosuppressed male was infected with swine-origin influenza virus requiring mechanical ventilation. Overnight the inspiratory pressures needed to maintain his tidal volume had progressively increased and his face had become markedly swollen.
Radiology Oddity #016
November 3, 2009 By View Comments
It is another busy night in ED. The ‘Bat-Phone’ rings, gently pricking the ear to attention in anticipation of the next code…
We are bringing in a 60 year old lady with profuse diaphoresis, hypotensive with a systolic of 70 and altered conscious state…
Top 10 Foreign Bodies
October 29, 2009 By View Comments
From time to time little things get lost. Whether you are playing billiards naked in the dark; counting money with your tongue; battling with an electric rolling pin….or just ‘slipping’ whilst in the shower….you may be unlucky enough to find yourself in the emergency department desperately trying to manifest a more tangible excuse for foreign body concealment.
Radiological oddity #015
October 26, 2009 By View Comments
A 32 year-old male with no previous medical problems, other than a history of smoking cigarettes, was infected by swine-origin influenza virus (SOIV) and developed severe ‘FLAAARDS’ (‘flu’-A associated acute respiratory distress syndrome) requiring treatment with ECMO (extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation). His chest and abdominal radiographs are shown. Q1. Describe the findings on the chest and [...]
My chest is burning!
October 8, 2009 By View Comments
The Minerva section of the British Medical Journal was probably the only part of any medical journal I used to look at when I was a medical student. It has taken me sometime to find it, but the following chest radiograph of a West Indian man with severe burning chest pain must be seen to be believed.
Radiological Oddity #013
September 21, 2009 By View Comments
A 35 year old lady is brought to the emergency department in the company of 3 large men. Can you tell why they’re with her?
Radiological Oddity #011
September 16, 2009 By View Comments
A long-term inpatient from a Psychiatric hospital presents to the Emergency Department with gradual onset of abdominal swelling over four weeks and acute generalised abdominal pain over the last 24 hours. Can you spot what might be causing his discomfort?
