Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
Emergency Medicine education blog
Having a toothpick fish (the Candiru) take a detour up your urethra doesn’t really bear thinking about. The idea of maggots crawling around under your skin sickens you. It is true, humans are afflicted by some pretty nasty parasites. At we can least be thankful for bacon.
But things could be much, much worse.
A 40 year-old man presents to the ‘fast-track’ area of your emergency department. He has a ulcerating sore on his right arm. He says its been getting worse over the past 2 weeks.
Toxicology conundrum about the redback spider… in Japan!
Redback spider bite is the most common envenoming in Australia with 5000–10,000 human bites occurring annually. Clinical features can be distressing and refractory to symptomatic treatment but not life‑threatening. Antivenom is curative.
