Bart Besinger top 5 little things we can do to fine tune the care of the brain injured patient.
Utopian Solution to Brain Failure
April 26, 2011 By 5 Comments
Feeling unprepared for your upcoming FACEM Part 2 emergency medicine examination? Suffering from brain failure? Don’t worry, UCEM have the solution thanks to pioneering work by neurosurgeon Robert J. White.
Jesus Saves
December 27, 2010 By 2 Comments
The story of Alastair Coutts and Bob Eason as they try to save a dying patient in a small wooden hut in the Solomon islands with only basic equipment and a little help from Jesus.
Bullet in the Head
December 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A gun shot wound to the head provides the basis for a question-and-answer based discussion on penetrating traumatic brain injury and multi-modal monitoring.
EBM Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
November 10, 2010 By 2 Comments
Review of EBM surrounding the assessment and management of Subarachnoid Haemorrhage in the emergency department
Coma in a spinal patient
July 12, 2010 By 2 Comments
Fever in a spinal patient
July 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
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?
Minor Injuries 002
April 2, 2010 By 2 Comments
Case study on mild traumatic head injury, how to recognise, when to scan, and how to safely discharge these patients from the emergency department.
Forgetting the Unforgettable II
October 21, 2009 By 3 Comments
Subarachnoid Haemorrhage – The ED perspective.
September 8, 2009 By 2 Comments
It is a busy Thursday evening shift and you are called to the front desk to see a 34 year old female complaining of the ‘worst’ headache of her life. The headache hit her like a ‘bolt out of the blue’ and has been unremitting ever since…
