Review of EBM for the assessment and management of Diabetic Ketoacidosis in the emergency department
Blunt Trauma to the Eye
August 31, 2010 By 1 Comment
Your Emergency Department Director decided that a team-building exercise at the local boxing gym would be a good idea. You are left to hold the fort at work. An hour later the Director is en route to the ED
A Curtain Descends
August 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A 50 year-old man presents with ‘a curtain coming down across his vision’, preceded by ‘flashes and floaters’. What is the diagnosis and management?
Hypoglycemia, but how?
July 2, 2010 By 3 Comments
A man presents with hypoglycemia, but has no history of any other illness nor a history of ingesting a hypoglycemic agent. Can you unravel the puzzle?
How’s Your Sugar?
June 1, 2010 By 1 Comment
The How’s Your Sugar? website deals with the issues faced by Australian Indigenous people in ‘living well’ with type 2 diabetes. It uses peer-to-peer narrative through interactive video clips and simple graphics to help explain the importance of food, exercise, medication and smoking cessation on controlling diabetes.
Quiz Clinical 018
November 7, 2009 By
This 65 year old woman with diabetes presented one week after some minor trauma to her right foot.
The Cretin and the Pharoah
April 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
One of the true joys of being a student at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was to be taught by Professor Peter Pharoah. Well, not so much to be taught by him, as to have him share intriguing insights and amazing adventures from his work in Papua New Guinea. Professor Pharoah’s mission, one that [...]
Diabetic Ketoacidosis: Lecture Notes
October 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
