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Plaster Slab

May 15, 2010 By 6 Comments
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Review of the potential complications following application of a forearm plaster cast

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Are you Satisficed?

April 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
recent CXR_2

Review these chest radiographs of an ICU patient with respiratory deterioration. What has been missed? What cognitive bias contributed to the error?

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Wrestling with Risk

March 17, 2010 By 3 Comments
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Risk in Emergency medicine – what is it, how to doctors assess it and how they make decisions? How can we make things better? Some answers, more questions.

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Entrapped

December 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment

You are handed over a patient by a colleague (that’s a ‘handoff’ to you Yanks)… He says he would usually send a patient like this home, but as the d-dimer is pending he suggests the patient should wait for the result.

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Broken-hearted chest drain

December 3, 2009 By 3 Comments
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This 86 year old male presented with shortness of breath. He developed a complication after insertion of a left chest drain.

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To the Night-shift ED Doctor

February 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

It’s four in the morning. It’s been a long night… I know, believe me. But before you discharge the 60 year-old man who came in gasping for air a few hours earlier, take the time to consider a few things. Listen to the history, the patient may tell you the diagnosis. Having to get out [...]

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