Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
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aka Cardiovascular Curveball 013 A junior colleague asks if he can discuss a case with you. His patient is a 23 year-old man who presents with 2 hours of rapid regular palpitations associated with ‘not feeling quite right’. These symptoms came on while he was running on a treadmill at his local gym. He has [...]
Critical care questions on antibiotics, infections in special situations and sepsis that isn’t improving.
A junior trainee has made a medical error that has resulted in a life-threatening adverse event.
Questions 16. With respect to pregnancy. a. Indicate how the following variables change in the third trimester (either increase or decrease or no change). b. List 4 conditions specific to pregnancy which may result in right or left heart failure or both. c. Outline the major differences in approach to cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pregnancy as [...]
Assessment of nutritional status in a critically ill patient.
Causes, treatment an complications of a metabolically deranged critically ill patient.
A critically ill patient with deranged liver function tests.
A critically ill child with possible inhalational injury and burns.
Cardiac biomarkers in the diagnose of acute myocardial infarction.
