
A 62 yo lady presents to the ER after opening a package containing a coat bought online from Uzbekistan. After trying it on, she immediately feels pain in her left hand. She shakes the coat, and out crawls…
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A 62 yo lady presents to the ER after opening a package containing a coat bought online from Uzbekistan. After trying it on, she immediately feels pain in her left hand. She shakes the coat, and out crawls…
This ‘postcard from the edge’ is by Swedish Emergency doctor Katrin Hruska (@akutdoktorn), who writes a predominantly Swedish language blog called akutdoktorn.

Today we explore the evolving ‘furuncle’ or boil. A simple enough beast to deal with under normal circumstances – but in the returning traveler…myriad possibilities raise their ugly heads

A surprising FEAST: “Fluid boluses significantly increased 48-hour mortality in critically ill children with impaired perfusion in… resource-limited settings in Africa.”

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.
Wednesday, December 1st is World AIDS Day — a day to raise awareness for the ongoing AIDs pandemic around the world and to remember the past. I spent 3 months in Zambia in 2002, a time that really opened my eyes up to what AIDS was doing to the world. Much has changed since then, yet the disaster continues and the burden of AIDS has now persisted for 3 decades. This is what I wrote about my experience and views on the AIDS crisis in Zambia back in 2002.
My recent talk on marine envenoming is now alive in blog-post form thanks to the MicroGnome. It gives a brief overview of the clinical aspects of marine envenoming from an Australian perspective.
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