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Management has synonymously been associated with bad decisions, selective cost cutting, raising it’s own salary and attempting to rob others of their ideas. This perception has led people to view managers as parasites, which according to new scientific data may be more correct than we previously thought.
The Man from Snowy River or The Man that is intellectually disabled, violent, and age inappropriate for a Nursing Home…challenges the 4 hour rule in South Australia
Molecular biologists working with a team of anthropologists have discovered a new gene that is set to revise the theories of social structure in humans.
Scenario You receive a call from the ambulance control at 4pm on Friday. A pungent gas has been released in the underground train station. Your emergency department is the nearest tertiary hospital. At least 100 patients are involved. Question a. Outline your response to this notification. (100%) Answer Answer and Interpretation FACEM VAQ Exam 2003.2 [...]
You are the director of an urban emergency department. Your staff have brought to your attention the case of a 24 year old woman who has presented to your emergency department on 15 occasions in the past two weeks. On each occasion she complains of severe abdominal discomfort. Investigations have failed to find a cause. [...]
You are notified by the Director of an Intensive Care Unit at another hospital about a 63 year old male who had recently presented to your emergency department with a large subarachnoid haemorrhage. He is now in the Intensive Care Unit with a poor prognosis. This patient had attended your department 48 hours earlier with [...]
Scenario The mother of a child makes a complaint. She states that three days previously, her 5 year old son had presented to the emergency department with elbow pain after a fall onto his outstretched hand. Following X-rays, the treating doctor had “pulled on the elbow several times causing him to cry”. The doctor stated [...]
You are the Director of the emergency department with the following problem. The hospital’s access block is 47% and its bed occupancy is 92%.
Outline the evidence for therapeutic hypothermia in post cardiac arrest patients.
