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It is ladies month here still – and today we are going to get into one of the the big Emergency scenarios of Women’s health. Imagine this: Its a quiet night shift – you are contemplating a third cuppa when the triage nurse rolls in with a young woman on a wheelchair. Your powers of [...]
Hi Listeners Dr MEl Thompson is back for a second bite of “lessons hard learned ” This case is a lot close to home, I think these types of errors / system problems occur in large multi-department hospitals all the time – you might evne have seen it recently. SO have a listen [...]
Gday, it is still Paeds month – so I have dragged an unsuspecting local Paediatrician up to the mike! This is # 6 in the series of Lessons Hard Learned. IN this episode Dr Mel Thompson recounts a truly terrible experience in a remote, resource poor and difficult environment. However, some of the lessons from [...]
Traumatic fluid resuscitation. This is one area of Emergency medicine where the dogma is pretty entrenched and the evidence has moved on quite a bit in the last 10 years. It is a poorly understood area of practice – probably because it has gone thorugh several permutations of name and ideology in recent history – [...]
This is my first Clinical Case on the podcast. So hope you like the format – it is a bit mixed media. Here is what I want you to do – first listen to the podcast below, take your time to think it over and then give me your opinion. Either write a comment on [...]
