CICM SAQ 2010.2 Q26

CICM_SAQ

Approach to a critically ill pregnant patient with swine origin influenza virus.

Swine Flu Saves Lives?

Did the swine flu pandemic save lives? A response to Richard Lehman’s perspective on a recently published overview of the swine flu pandemic in Australia.

Radiological oddity #015

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A 32 year-old male with no previous medical problems, other than a history of smoking cigarettes, was infected by swine-origin influenza virus (SOIV) and developed severe ‘FLAAARDS’

The week that was

Why wouldn’t you want to be an emergency medicine doc? That week just gone saw the first ‘case’ of ‘swine flu’ in Australia, with the ED continuing to see steady streams of suspected ‘swine flu’ victims, with many of the scenarios nearly as ridiculous as a patient coughing after shaking hands with his sister’s new [...]

H1 N1 DON’T PANIC!

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Swine Flu for Dummies, is it really a public health emergency of international concern