A Q&A approach to the recognition and management of life-threatening chest injuries in the major trauma patient.
Own the Chest Tube!
April 28, 2011 By 6 Comments
In this materialistic day and age you can never own too many things… It’s time to Own the Chest Tube!
Own the Echo!
March 23, 2011 By 7 Comments
Bedside echocardiodiography is taking over the resuscitation world. Learn how to ‘own the echo’ when it comes to the critically ill or shocked patient!
EBM Spontaneous Pneumothorax
November 21, 2010 By 2 Comments
Spontaneous Pneumothorax in the Emergency Department an EBM Review
Are you Satisficed?
April 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
Review these chest radiographs of an ICU patient with respiratory deterioration. What has been missed? What cognitive bias contributed to the error?
Do you know John Hunter?
September 19, 2009 By 1 Comment
The house officer looked at the film on the light box and thought of the elderly physician resting in bed across the corridor. Despite two previous chest drains, a pneumothorax persisted around the left lung. To make matters worse, one of the holes in the side of the remaining chest tube was in that ‘no [...]
Spontaneous Pneumothorax: Lecture Notes
November 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
